LEADER 03655oam 2200637I 450 001 9910151708403321 005 20230810001406.0 010 $a1-315-58461-1 010 $a1-317-12849-4 010 $a1-317-12850-8 024 7 $a10.4324/9781315584614 035 $a(CKB)3710000000952458 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4746111 035 $a(OCoLC)963934242 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4746111 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11300560 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL971277 035 $a(OCoLC)964404889 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000952458 100 $a20180706d2017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aGerald Howard-Smith and the 'Lost Generation' of late Victorian and Edwardian England /$fJohn Benson 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2017. 215 $a1 online resource (xxvi, 415 pages) 311 $a1-138-32968-1 311 $a1-4724-3590-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages [146]-150) and index. 327 $apt. I. Privilege -- pt. II. Career -- pt. III. Sacrifice -- pt. IV. Commemoration. 330 2 $a"Gerald Howard-Smith's life is intriguing both in its own right and as a vehicle for exploring the world in which he lived. Tall, boisterous and sometimes rather irascible, he was one of the so-called 'Lost Generation' whose lives were cut short by the First World War. Brought up in London, and educated at Eton and Cambridge, he excelled both at cricket and athletics. After qualifying as a solicitor he moved to Wolverhampton and threw himself into the local sporting scene, making a considerable name for himself in the years before the First World War. Volunteering for military service in 1914, he was decorated for bravery before being killed in action two years later. Reporting his death, the War History of the South Staffordshire Regiment claimed that, 'In his men's eyes he lived as a loose-limbed hero, and in him they lost a very humorous and a very gallant gentleman.' As well as telling the fascinating story of Gerald Howard-Smith for the first time, this important new biography explores such complex and important issues as childhood and adolescence, class relations, sporting achievement, manliness and masculinity, metropolitan-provincial relationships, and forms of commemoration. It will therefore be of interest to educationalists, sports historians, local and regional historians, and those interested in class, gender and civilian-military relations--indeed all those seeking to understand the economic, social, and cultural life of late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Britain"--Publisher description. 606 $aWorld War, 1914-1918$zGreat Britain$vBiography 606 $aSoldiers$zEngland$vBiography 606 $aYoung men$zEngland$vBiography 606 $aUpper class$zEngland$vBiography 606 $aAthletes$zEngland$vBiography 606 $aTeachers$zEngland$vBiography 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yEdward VII, 1901-1910$vBiography 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yVictoria, 1837-1901$vBiography 615 0$aWorld War, 1914-1918 615 0$aSoldiers 615 0$aYoung men 615 0$aUpper class 615 0$aAthletes 615 0$aTeachers 676 $a942.0823092 700 $aBenson$b John$f1945 July 23-,$0252668 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910151708403321 996 $aGerald Howard-Smith and the 'Lost Generation' of late Victorian and Edwardian England$91999316 997 $aUNINA