Battalion in Rest

Item

Title

Battalion in Rest

Identifier

9382.cpd

Creator

Blunden, Edmund (1896-1974)

Abstract

Page 286 from a first edition of 'Undertones of War' (1928) showing the final two stanzas of poem 'Battalion At Rest'. The prose section of the, apart from the help of a few maps, entirely from memory while Blunden was teaching in Tokyo between 1924 and 1927. Annotations in Blunden's hand added later at an unknown date. Alongside stanza 5 he writes, 'Ashford', and alongside stanza 6 he writes 'Naylor'.

Date

1928

Date Created

1928-01-01

Temporal Coverage

1928-12-31

Spatial Coverage

Source

Folio

Medium

Paper

Format

Published

Type

Poem

number of pages

2

Contributor

Alisa Miller