Further Information & Links

Other sites and books providing further details of the events and people featured are listed here:

The Skipper – ed. Frank Sidgwick (The Dragon School)

War Memorials – ed. Skipper Lynam (The Dragon School)

A Dragon Century – Chris Jaques (The Dragon School)

Summoned by Bells – John Betjeman (pub. John Murray)

Hints to Speakers and Players – Rosina Filippi (pub. Edward Arnold)

The Life of Ronald Poulton – Edward Poulton (pub. Sidgwick & Jackson)

A Surgeon in Belgium – Henry Souttar (pub. Edward Arnold)

Milestones – Sir John Smyth (pub. Sidgwick & Jackson)

The Only Enemy – Sir John Smyth (pub. Hutchinson)

J.B.S.  The Life & Work of JBS Haldane – Ronald Clark (pub. Hodder & Stoughton)

Tyrwhitt of the Harwich Force – A Temple Patterson (pub. Macdonald)

Slide Rule – Nevil Shute (pub. William Heinemann)

The Sinn Fein Rebellion as they saw it – ed. Keith Jeffery (pub. Irish Academic Press)

Admiral Sir William Fisher – Sir William James (pub. Macmillan)

A Medal for Life – Leslie Wm Bills (pub. Spellmount)

The Airship VC – RL Rimell (Aston Publications)

The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire & Buckinghamshire Light Infantry – Capt. GK Rose

Into the Cannon’s Mouth – PJ Campbell (pub. Hamish Hamilton)

The Ebb & Flow of Battle – PJ Campbell (pub. Hamish Hamilton)

Arthur Hugh Sidgwick – Tom Patterson (self-published)

Sayajirao of Baroda – Fatesinghrao Gaekwad (Popular Prakashan, 1989)

The Ruler of Baroda – PW Sergeant (John Murray, 1928)

 

 

Illustrations are mainly courtesy of Wikipedia.

April 10th (1915) : By Michelin [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

April 15th:

1. By Michelin [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

2. By Ronald_Poulton-Palmerfoto1.jpg: Calpisa derivative work: Udufruduhu (Ronald_Poulton-Palmerfoto1.jpg) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons.

April 20th: John Tenniel [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Jan 10th (1916)  Map via http://www.worldwar1.com/tgws/jpg/map_gallipoli.jpg

Jan 13th: Map of Mesopotamian Campaign created by the Department of Military Art and Engineering, at the U.S. Military Academy (West Point). [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Jan 27th: picture by Coke Smyth [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons

April 1st: picture by Max Beerbohm [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

April 6th: picture Oscar Parkes [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

May 7th: HMS Russell – by photographer not identified. [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

May 9th: Sackville St – By Miller, James Martin & H.S. Canfield. [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

May 10th: picture of Nevil Norway is courtesy of Shrewsbury School.

May 17th: Sir Walter Raleigh – by Lady Ottoline Morrell [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

June 4th: HMS St. Vincent – by British Government [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

June 6th: HMS Invincible – by Presumed to be an official British Government photograph. [Public domain or Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

June 7th: Wreck of Invincible – by Official RN photographer [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

July 4th: Map – http://www.1914-18.net

Sept 10th: SL 11 picture – By Jpb1301 (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) or GFDL (http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons

Sept 18th: B.E. 12 picture – see page for author [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Nov 6th: Map of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) {{Template:ImageOL |License= Public Domain |Author= Unknown |Source= Taken from the book, The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir by Sir James McCrone Douie. |URL= http://www.gutenberg.org

Nov 12th: picture of HEG Tyndale courtesy of Winchester College.

Nov 30th: picture of ML Jacks courtesy of Balliol College, Oxford.

Dec 11th: picture of HAL Fisher courtesy of Wikimedia Commons.

Dec 21st: picture of Queen’s Hall & Sir Hubert Parry courtesy of Wikimedia

May 28th (1917): picture of FE2d courtesy of Wikipedia.

Sept 19th: original copy of Skipper’s letter courtesy of Balliol College, Oxford.

Jan 5th (1918): map by Anon [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons

Feb 25th: map from http://www.naval-history.net

April 5th: Maitland Buildings picture, courtesy of the Principal & Fellows of Somerville College, Oxford.

July 1st: RE 8 picture: Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=611370

Dec 30th: 8th Sultan of Zanzibar, unknown author [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

1919

July 26th. Picture of Ronald & Janet Poulton from ‘Ronald Poulton’ by Professor EB Poulton (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1919).

Sept 12th. Picture from ‘In Ruhleben, Letters From a Prisoner to his Mother,’ ed. Douglas Sladen (Hurst & Blackett, 1917).

Sept 21st. Ditto

October 26th. Picture of Arthur Karney: wikipedia.

Nov 2nd: Picture from ‘In Ruhleben, Letters From a Prisoner to his Mother,’ ed. Douglas Sladen (Hurst & Blackett, 1917).

 

 

 

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