Other Men's Flowers: An Anthology of Poetry

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Operations In The Western Desert from December 7th, 1940 to February 7th, 1942", sent to Secretary of State for War June 1941 and published in "No. 37628". The London Gazette (Supplement). 25 June 1946. pp.3261–3269. Wavell married Eugenie Marie Quirk, only daughter of Col. J. O. Quirk CB DSO, on 22 April 1915. [77] She survived him and died, as Dowager Countess Wavell, on 11 October 1987, aged 100 years. [78] The Army in South Africa - Troops returning Home". The Times. No.36899. London. 15 October 1902. p.8.

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Channon, Henry (1987). Rhodes James, R. (ed.). Chips: The Diaries of Sir Henry Channon. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson.Wavell's daughter weds". Archived from the original on 28 January 2019 . Retrieved 27 January 2019. Wavell is buried in the old mediaeval cloister at Winchester College, next to the Chantry Chapel. His tombstone simply bears the inscription "Wavell". A plaque was placed in the north nave aisle of Winchester Cathedral to commemorate both Wavell and his son. [75] St Andrew's Garrison Church, Aldershot, an Army church, contains a large wooden plaque dedicated to Lord Wavell. [76] Family [ edit ] After the ' war to end war', they seem to have been pretty successful in Paris at making the 'Peace to end Peace. '" [99] (commenting on the treaties ending the First World War; this quotation was the basis for the title of David Fromkin's A Peace to End All Peace, New York: Henry Holt, (1989) ISBN 0-8050-6884-8)

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Wavell read and remembered poetry widely throughout his life. Less in the war years (wwII) when he relied on his facility for poetic recall. Kipling and Browning could have been his favourites. Kipling, Browning and Chesterton have the largest numbers of poems included by far and the rest cover a broad range of poetry through the ages. There 108 other poets, including quite a few Anons and approximately 260 poems or extracts, long and short. A taste of the variety of poets is: Blake, WH Davies, John Buchan, Edward Lear, Jean Ingelow, Burns, Housman, Belloc, Robert Frost and on, up and down the ages A competent reader often discovers in other men’s writings other perfections than the author himself either intended or perceived, a richer sense and more quaint expression. Portrait of Michel de Montaigne by Salvador Dalí, 1947 First, consider the three R’s — repetition, repetition and repetition. Richard A. Lanham’s authoritative “A Handlist of Rhetorical Terms” lists no fewer than 36 figures of repetition Mead, Richard (2007). Churchill's Lions: A Biographical guide to the Key British Generals of World War II. Stroud: Spellmount. ISBN 978-1-86227-431-0. By the end of the year, although still on half pay, Wavell had been designated to command 2nd Division and appointed a CB. [39] In March 1935, he took command of his division. [40] In August 1937 he was transferred to Palestine, where there was growing unrest, to be General Officer Commanding (GOC) British Forces in Palestine and Trans-Jordan [41] and was promoted to Lieutenant-General on 21 January 1938. [42]Wavell once again had the misfortune of being placed in charge of an undermanned theatre which became a war zone when the Japanese declared war on the United Kingdom in December 1941. He was made Commander-in-Chief of ABDACOM (American-British-Dutch-Australian Command). [54] Dowager Countess Wavell". Online dictionary of distinguished women, Index W. Archived from the original on 3 March 2016 . Retrieved 22 March 2015. Wavell ( not a Lord when he put this collection together in 1943) said in his introduction that the poems were noted down as favourites by him and with the help of his family in reminding him of their favourites he would read and recite for them. What accounted for its success? My guess is that it made poetry respectable for manly men - Wavell's section on war is called "Good Fighting" but his section on love a tongue-tied "Love and All That" - in an age when reciteable poetry still had a popular appeal. Looking at it again this week, my wife remembered how her father could recite all of the "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" and Hilaire Belloc's "Do you remember an Inn, Miranda? / Do you remember an Inn?" My own father could do as well with a lot of the Burns and Coleridge. Both our fathers left school at 14. They had uneducated memories compared with Wavell, who wrote in his introduction that while, nearing 60, he couldn't claim he could repeat by heart all the 260 or so poems in the the anthology, he thought he could safely claim that he once could. Music matters, too. The effects of the tricolon, as of any number of other figures, are in some ways metrical. Think of how clusters of stressed syllables can sound resolute and determined. “Yes we can!”

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Lord Wavell, British War Leader, Dies". Oxnard Press-Courier. 24 May 1950. Archived from the original on 2 July 2022 . Retrieved 11 May 2013. In December 1915, after he had recovered, Wavell was returned to General HQ in France as a GSO2. [22] He was promoted to the substantive rank of major on 8 May 1916. [23] In October 1916 Wavell was graded General Staff Officer Grade 1 (GSO1) as an acting lieutenant-colonel, [24] and was then assigned as a liaison officer to the Russian Army in the Caucasus. [9] In June 1917, he was promoted to brevet lieutenant-colonel [25] and continued to work as a staff officer (GSO1), [26] as liaison officer with the Egyptian Expeditionary Force headquarters. [9]On 23 February 1942, with Malaya lost and the Allied position in Java and Sumatra precarious, ABDACOM was closed down and its headquarters in Java evacuated. Wavell returned to India to resume his position as C-in-C India where his responsibilities now included the defence of Burma. [56] Wavell (right) with Brooke-Popham in WW II Prose does not scan like poetry. But it shares its effects. One of the most memorable lines in American history, for instance, is the clause in the Declaration of Independence: “We hold these truths to be self-evident.” I think he ( Benito Mussolini) must do something, if he cannot make a graceful dive he will at least have to jump in somehow; he can hardly put on his dressing-gown and walk down the stairs again." [98] Apart from a short period unemployed on half pay in 1926, [32] [33] Wavell continued to hold GSO1 appointments, latterly in the 3rd Infantry Division, until July 1930 when he was given command of 6th Infantry Brigade with the temporary rank of brigadier. [34] In March 1932, he was appointed aide-de-camp (ADC) to King George V, [35] a position he held until October 1933 when he was promoted to Major-General. [36] [37] However, there was a shortage of jobs for Major-Generals at this time and in January 1934, on relinquishing command of his brigade, he found himself unemployed on half pay once again. [38]