Record Number: 31952

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Reading Experience:

Evidence:

'I went up the line to the 168 batteries and had a most excellent lunch with Hastings and Poole at B battery in a dug-out which the former has built in a trench there. They were shelling us now and again with short bursts of small shells which went just over and to the left. Hastings showed me the proofs of a poem called "Regent Street" which has been taken by the English Review. It turned out a wet afternoon.'

Century:

1900-1945

Date:

17 Apr 1918

Country:

Belgium

Time

morning

Place:

city: Brielen (near)
location in dwelling: dug-out
other location: D.168 Battery HQ

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

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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:

Belgium

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

n/a

Additional Comments:

n/a

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Text Being Read:

Author:

L. M. Hastings

Title:

'Regent Street'

Genre:

Poetry

Form of Text:

Print: Serial / periodical, Page proofs

Publication Details

Later published in the 'English Review' (May 1918): 390.

Provenance

read in situ

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Source Information:

Record ID:

31952

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:

338

Additional Comments:

n/a

Citation:

A. B. Scott (ed.), Artillery and Trench Mortar Memories, (London, 1932), p. 338, http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/reading/UK/record_details.php?id=31952, accessed: 13 May 2024

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Additional Comments:

None