And We Were Young: Oundle School and the Great War
by Colin Pendrill
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- Hardcover
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- ISBN 10
- 1912174197
- ISBN 13
- 9781912174195
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Solihull: Helion & Company, 2017. A boy, he spent his boys dear life for England. These words from a poem of 1916 were written in reaction to the news that a young boy, who had left Oundle School just two years earlier, had shot himself, whilst stranded in the Libyan Desert. With his plane grounded, he took his own life hoping that the meagre supply of water they had left might save the life of his mechanic. The young boy was Stewart Ridley and he was 19 years old. The poet who wrote about him was John Drinkwater. And We Were Young tells the stories of 263 young men from Oundle School and Laxton Grammar School who lost their lives in the Great War. And they were young. The average age at death was just 23 and the youngest, John Savage, shot down by the German air ace Max Immelmann, was just 17. They died across the globe, on land, at sea and in the air. Most of course on the Western Front but others in British as well as Portuguese East Africa; Gaza and Gallipoli, Italy and India, Mesopotamia and Macedonia, Jutland and Coronel and one in the Russian Civil War, long after the Armistice. The vast majority of them were volunteers not professional soldiers. The book celebrates their individual stories, their brief lives where school and school friends were so central and their deaths brought about by war. It also contextualises and analyses the battles in which they fought. In addition, 'And We Were Young' tells of the impact of the War on the two twinned schools in Oundle. With its wide curriculum and innovative well-equipped and probably unique engineering workshops, the boys of the Oundle School were able to contribute directly to the war effort by making vital parts for the War Office. They also dug for victory and continued their pioneering work in agricultural research and they trained for war in the schools OTC. Guided by their great, reforming headmaster, Frederick Sanderson, Oundle boys also gave up their holidays and extended their working hours to meet the challenges posed by the great conflict.. 1st Edition. Hard Cover. New/New. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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- Title
- And We Were Young: Oundle School and the Great War
- Author
- Colin Pendrill
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New New
- Jacket Condition
- New
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1912174197
- ISBN 13
- 9781912174195
- Publisher
- Helion & Company
- Place of Publication
- Solihull
- Date Published
- 2017
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
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