42. Eric Greer’s bride, Pamela Fitzgerald, pictured before her marriage. (Private collection)
43. Excerpt from one of Henry Dundas’ satirical poems, typed at brigade headquarters in 1917. (Private collection)
44. German offensive on the Somme. 1918
45. Captain Ralph Dominic Gamble, 1st Coldstream Guards. Pictured just before leaving Eton in spring 1916. (Author’s collection)
46. Ralph Gamble a little over a year later. The strain of war is apparent. (Private collection)
47. Logie Leggatt’s menu from the elaborate 4 June dinner at St Omer, 1917, signed by Ralph Gamble, Henry Dundas, Viscount Holmesdale and Charlie Hambro, among others. (Private collection)
48. Henry Dundas (far left) instructing a group of Guardsmen in bombing. (Private collection)
49. Men of the Guards Division cross the Yser Canal, 31 July 1917. (Author’s collection)
50. Captain Victor Alexander (‘Teenie’) Cazalet, Household Cavalry Regiment. Pictured at Eton in 1915. (Private collection)
51. RMS Lusitania. The torpedo struck between the first and second funnels on the side shown. (Eric Sauder Collection)
52. Lieutenant-Commander Geoffrey Heneage Drummond VC. (Private collection)
53. HMS Invincible on fire at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916. (Author’s collection)
54. Henry Dundas with his blackthorn stick. (Private collection)
55. 2nd Lt Reginald ‘Rex’ Mendel, Royal Field Artillery. (Private collection)
56. Lt David Stuart Barclay, 1st Scots Guards. (Private Collection)
57. ‘Audley’ Drake. (Private collection)
58. Charles Fletcher pictured with dog, possibly Regie’s Muncles. (Private collection)
59. 2nd Lt Charles Austin Pittar, Coldstream Guards. Pictured after the war at Oxford. (Private collection)
60. Bruno Schroeder, the only Old Etonian known to have fought with the Kaiser’s army during the Great War. (Private collection)
61. Etonian Generals pose for a group photograph with the school’s hierarchy on a visit to Eton, 20 May 1919. Back Row: Lt Gen Sir T. D’O. Snow, Maj Gen J. Ponsonby (‘General John’), Maj Gen R.L. Mullens, Maj Gen The Hon. E.I. Montague-Stuart-Wortley, Maj Gen Sir H.S. Jeudwine, Maj Gen A.E. Sandbach. Middle Row: Dr A.J. Butler, Sir Henry Babington Smith, Maj Gen C.R.R. McGrigor, A.B. Ramsey, Maj Gen C.F. Romer, Lt Gen Sir W.P. Pulteneny (front), Maj Gen Hon. Sir W. Lambton, Lt. Gen Sir W.T. Furse, Maj Gen H.R. Davies, Lt Gen Sir F.J. Davies, Lt Gen Earl of Cavan, Lt. Gen Sir C. Fergusson Bt. Front Row: Gen Sir H.S. Rawlinson, Dr M.R. James, Gen Sir H.C.O. Plumer, Rev C.A. Alington, Gen Hon Sir J.H. Byng, F.H. Rawlins. (Eton College)
62. Hubert Brinton. (Private collection)
63. Henry Dundas’ father looks out over Canal du Nord on a trip to the battlefields in the early 1920s. (Private collection)
64. Pam Greer with her daughter Erica just weeks before her own death in 1918. (Private collection)
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