scholarly journals Ernest Harold Farmer 1890-1952

1952 ◽  
Vol 8 (21) ◽  
pp. 159-169
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Teaching Profession ◽  
Early Career ◽  
World War ◽  
Surgical Skill ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Active Service ◽  
Degree Of Disability ◽  
First World ◽  
Substantial Degree

Ernest Harold Farmer was born at Longford, Derbyshire, on 3 March 1890, and was educated at the Municipal School, Derby, and University College, Nottingham. He studied chemistry under Professor F. S. Kipping, F.R.S., and took his first degree in 1911. His early career gave no indication that he was to become one of the country’s leading research chemists, and on graduation he entered the teaching profession, holding posts successively at Daventry Grammar School and at the Municipal College, Bury, Lancashire. The first world war interrupted his career; he volunteered for active service, and in 1915 was gazetted to the Loyal North Lancashire Regiment, serving with them until his demobilization in 1919. In 1917, at the battle of Messines, he was severely injured, and spent the next two years in hospital and nursing home, while surgeons struggled to save his right arm. Surgical skill, aided by Farmer’s own perseverance and courage, finally gained a substantial victory, but a substantial degree of disability remained throughout his life. The extent of this was realized by few, but it was a fact that when lecturing he found it necessary to wear an elbow support to enable him to raise his arm to write on a blackboard. In view of the delicate experimental work which he carried out, it is hard to realize that he never recovered the full use of his right hand. Incidentally, his writing remained fluent and legible, and it was not unduly difficult to decipher one of his manuscripts, even when it had been subjected to the repeated editing which always resulted from his ceaseless striving for perfection.

The Mysterious Mr Le Queux

2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 17-58
Author(s):  
Roger T. Stearn
Keyword(s):  
First World War ◽  
Early Career ◽  
World War ◽  
Kind Permission ◽  
High Profile ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Biographical Account ◽  
First World

This article presents what is widely considered to be the best biographical account of the life of the controversial popular author, journalist and amateur spy, William Le Queux. The article originally appeared in Soldiers of the Queen, the journal of the Victorian Military Society, and is reproduced here with their kind permission in order to bring it before a new audience. It documents Le Queux’s life, from the little that is known about his early career through to his high-profile involvement in defence scaremongering before and during the First World War to his subsequent lapse into postwar obscurity.

scholarly journals George Martin Lees, 1898 - 1955

1955 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 162-173 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Military Academy ◽  
Forced Landing ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Active Service ◽  
First World

George Martin Lees, son of George Murray Lees of Edinburgh, was born at Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland, on 16 April 1898. He was educated at St Andrews College, Dublin (1906-1915) and immediately thereafter attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, in preparation for taking part in the first world war, then in progress. From Woolwich he was commissioned in the Royal Artillery, in which he served in France. He soon transferred to the Royal Flying Corps and won the M.C. There followed a tour of duty as a flying instructor in Egypt, where he gained his first experience of the Middle East, a region on which he was later to become the leading geological authority. From Egypt he moved to Mesopotamia (now Iraq) and saw further active service in air operations, for which he was awarded the D.F.C. He took part in the capture of Kirkuk from the Turks and made a forced landing behind the Turkish lines in what is now the great Kirkuk oilfield, regaining the British lines with difficulty on foot.

‘There was a young girl of the Somme, / Who sat on a number five bomb’: The Representation of Violence in First World War Trench Newspaper Nonsense Rhymes

2018 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 129-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emily Anderson
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
First World War ◽  
Young Girl ◽  
Great War ◽  
World War ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Active Service ◽  
First World

The nonsense rhymes that were almost ubiquitous in First World War trench newspapers (periodicals produced by servicemen while on active service) present vivid, humorous, and arresting representations of violence. This article draws attention to servicemen’s widespread use of limericks and parodic nursery rhymes to depict soldiers being, variously, shot, shelled, and bayoneted, and establishes the hitherto unrecognised representational significance of these poems. Those portrayals of the First World War most frequently celebrated for their truthfulness and emotiveness tend to be both solemn and, in different ways, ‘new’. In contrast, written in the traditions of nineteenth-century nonsense literature and reflecting the popularity of nonsense in contemporary comic periodicals, nonsensical trench newspaper poems indicate the durability of nonsense as a form of Great War representation.

Socio-political and confessional preconditions of the birth of the Ukrainian Evangelical-Reformed Church in Western Ukraine (20-30 years of the twentieth century)

2000 ◽  
pp. 67-75
Author(s):  
R. Soloviy
Keyword(s):  
Public Life ◽  
First World War ◽  
World War ◽  
Reformed Church ◽  
Religious Influences ◽  
The First World War ◽  
Western Ukraine ◽  
History Of ◽  
Religious Factor ◽  
First World

In the history of religious organizations of Western Ukraine in the 20-30th years of the XX century. The activity of such an early protestant denominational formation as the Ukrainian Evangelical-Reformed Church occupies a prominent position. Among UCRC researchers there are several approaches to the preconditions for the birth of the Ukrainian Calvinistic movement in Western Ukraine. In particular, O. Dombrovsky, studying the historical preconditions for the formation of the UREC in Western Ukraine, expressed the view that the formation of the Calvinist cell should be considered in the broad context of the Ukrainian national revival of the 19th and 20th centuries, a new assessment of the religious factor in public life proposed by the Ukrainian radical activists ( M. Drahomanov, I. Franko, M. Pavlik), and significant socio-political, national-cultural and spiritual shifts caused by the events of the First World War. Other researchers of Ukrainian Calvinism, who based their analysis on the confessional-polemical approach (I.Vlasovsky, M.Stepanovich), interpreted Protestantism in Ukraine as a product of Western cultural and religious influences, alien to Ukrainian spirituality and culture.

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