Curated category
British Army personnel of World War I
- Alfred HitchcockOn the 13th of August 1899, a boy named Alfred Joseph Hitchcock was born in the flat above his parents' greengrocer shop at 517 High Road in Leytonstone.
- J. R. R. TolkienJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on the 3rd of January 1892 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State. His father Arthur worked as a bank manager for the British…
- C. S. LewisClive Staples Lewis was born on the 29th of November 1898 in Belfast, Ulster. His father Albert James Lewis worked as a solicitor while his mother Florence…
- William FaulknerWilliam Cuthbert Faulkner was born on the 25th of September 1897 in New Albany, Mississippi. He grew up in Oxford, a town where his family lived for most of…
- Winston ChurchillOn the 30th of November 1874, Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill was born at his family's ancestral home, Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire.
- Raymond ChandlerRaymond Thornton Chandler arrived in Chicago on the 23rd of July 1888. His mother Florence Dart was originally from Ireland, and his father Maurice Benjamin…
- A. A. MilneAlan Alexander Milne was born in Kilburn, London on the 18th of January 1882. He grew up at Henley House School where his father taught him to read by the…
- Ernest ShackletonErnest Shackleton was born on the 15th of February 1874 in Kilkea, County Kildare, Ireland. His father Henry Shackleton had tried to join the British Army…
- Clement AttleeClement Richard Attlee was born on the 3rd of January 1883 in Putney, Surrey. He grew up in a two-storey villa with a large garden and tennis court.
- John BuchanJohn Buchan was born on the 26th of August 1875 at a double villa in Perth, Scotland. That building now bears his name as part of the York Place heritage…
- Lionel RobbinsLionel Charles Robbins was born on the 22nd of November 1898 in Sipson, west of London. His father Rowland Richard Robbins worked as a farmer and served on…
- T. D. KendrickThomas Downing Kendrick entered the world on the 1st of April 1895 in Handsworth, a suburb of Birmingham. His father Thomas H.
- Richard AldingtonEdward Godfree Aldington arrived in the world on the 8th of July 1892 within the port city of Portsmouth. He was the eldest of four children born to Albert…
- G. Wilson KnightGeorge Richard Wilson Knight was born in 1897 and educated at Dean Close School before attending Dulwich College. He served as a dispatch rider during World…