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War Letters of a Public-School Boy

War Letters of a Public-School Boy

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WAR LETTERS
OF A
PUBLIC-SCHOOL BOY

BY
PAUL JONES

Lieutenant of the Tank Corps

Scholar-Elect of Balliol College, Oxford: Head of the Modern Side and Captain of Football, Dulwich College, 1914

WITH A MEMOIR BY HIS FATHER
HARRY JONES

He was the very embodiment in himself of all that is best in the public-school spirit, the very incarnation of self-sacrifice and devotion.

A Dulwich Master.

WITH EIGHT PLATES

CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
1918

CONTENTS

  •   PAGE
  • Introductory 1

PART I. MEMOIR

Chapter

  • Childhood 9
  • At Dulwich College 14
  • Football 28
  • Cricket 37
  • Editor of The Alleynian 41
  • Public Schools and the War 47
  • Tastes and Hobbies 52
  • Music 59
  • Literature and Ethics 72
  • History and Politics 85
  • In the Army 98
  • Personal Characteristics 110

PART II. WAR LETTERS

  • At a Home Port 121
  • With the 9th Cavalry Brigade 131
  • With a Supply Column 186
  • In the Somme Battlefield 202
  • With the 2nd Cavalry Brigade 212
  • With the Tank Corps 229

PART III

LIST OF PLATES

  • H. P. M. Jones as 2nd Lieut. A.S.C. Frontispiece
  •  To face page
  • Paul as an Infant 8
  • In his 6th Year 12
  • Winning the Mile, March 27, 1915 22
  • Dulwich College First XV, 1914-15 28
  • Dulwich Modern Side XV, 1914-15 32
  • Paul Jones in his 19th Year 110
  • As a Subaltern in the

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