Wyndham Lewis in the Royal Artillery Garrison, 1916-1917: Part 2, Active Service

Beach, J. and Rosenquist, R. (2025) Wyndham Lewis in the Royal Artillery Garrison, 1916-1917: Part 2, Active Service. Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research. 103(414), pp. 203-224. 0037-9700.

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Abstract:

This article re-examines the twenty-one months that Wyndham Lewis, the modernist artist and writer, spent with the British army’s heavy artillery during the First World War. Using fresh contextual sources, including a previously unknown diary kept by one of his colleagues, it reconstructs his time in the gunners to an unprecedented depth. In so doing, it brings a military historical perspective to our understanding of Lewis’s home and active service. The findings change our understanding of him as a soldier and adjust significantly the image projected in his reminiscences. This is part two of two, with focus on active service at the front.

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Uncontrolled Keywords:

World War I, modernism, Blasting and Bombardiering, memoir, Wyndham Lewis, War and culture studies

Creators:

Beach, J. and Rosenquist, R.

Date:

30 September 2025

Date Type:

Publication

Page Range:

pp. 203-224

Journal or Publication Title:

Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research

Volume:

103

Number:

414

Number of Pages:

Language:

English

ISSN:

0037-9700

Status:

Published / Disseminated

Refereed:

Yes