posted on 2024-05-01, 12:52authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
Photograph of Lt. Col. G. Hyde Harrison. Edmund Blunden describes Lt. Col. Harrison as 'D. S. O. who commanded the Battalion from June 1916 to March 1917, and through it's Somme battles' (the battalion bing the 11th Royal Sussex). The book was compiled by Blunden with the intention of providing complementary photographs supporting the narrative and poems of 'Undertones of War' (1928), and was inscribed 'E.B. New Year, 1935' while Blunden was living in North Oxford, a neighbour of Graham Greene.