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Record Number: 31786


Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I came back in the afternoon ... and had a nice service for the Column in one of the huts close by. We carried the piano over from the mess. No news from the front much in the paper. People at home seem to be in very good spirits at the fall of Baghdad coupled with the German retirement here.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

25 Mar 1917

Country:

France

Time

evening

Place:

city: Mézières

Type of Experience
(Reader):
 

silent aloud unknown
solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown

Type of Experience
(Listener):
 

solitary in company unknown
single serial unknown


Reader / Listener / Reading Group:

Reader:

Rowan Ernest Grice-Hutchinson

Age:

Adult (18-100+)

Gender:

Male

Date of Birth:

1885

Socio-Economic Group:

Clergy (includes all denominations)

Occupation:

Chaplain, Thirty-Second Divisional Artilliery, British Army

Religion:

Church of England

Country of Origin:

England

Country of Experience:

France

Listeners present if any:
e.g family, servants, friends

n/a


Additional Comments:

n/a



Text Being Read:

Author:

Title:

[newspaper]

Genre:

Reference / General works

Form of Text:

Print: Newspaper

Publication Details

25 March 1917

Provenance

unknown


Source Information:

Record ID:

31786

Source:

Print

Author:

n/a

Editor:

A. B. Scott

Title:

Artillery and Trench Mortar Memories

Place of Publication:

London

Date of Publication:

1932

Vol:

n/a

Page:

189-90

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

A. B. Scott (ed.), Artillery and Trench Mortar Memories, (London, 1932), p. 189-90, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=31786, accessed: 01 June 2024


Additional Comments:

None

   
   
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