posted on 2024-05-01, 12:52authored byFirst World War Poetry Digital Archive Project Team
<p dir="ltr">Photograph of Pte. W. E. Shearing in uniform, pasted below an official flier describing his various acts of courage and military medal earned while a private with the 11th Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment. The book was compiled by Edmund 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.</p>