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    A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire
    A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire
    A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire
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    A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire

    By Harold Harvey

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire - Harold Harvey

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      Title: A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire

      Author: Harold Harvey

      Release Date: June 14, 2005 [EBook #16056]

      Language: English

      *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK A SOLDIER'S SKETCHES UNDER FIRE ***

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      Private Harold Harvey. Frontispiece

      A SOLDIER'S SKETCHES UNDER FIRE

      By HAROLD HARVEY

      LONDON

      SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON & CO., LTD.

      FORENOTE

      A title such as A Soldier's Sketches Under Fire indicates at once the nature, scope and limitations of this unpretentious volume of annotated drawings to which it has been given.

      Faked pictures of the war are plentiful. Sketches taken on the spot they depict, sometimes by a hand that had momentarily laid down a rifle to take them, and always by a draughtsman who drew in overt or covert peril of his life, gain in verisimilitude what they must lose in elaboration or embellishment; are the richer in their realism by reason of the absence of the imaginary and the meretricious.

      All that Mr. Harold Harvey drew he saw; but he saw much that he could not draw. All sorts of exploits of which pictures that brilliantly misrepresent them are easily concoctable were for him impossible subjects for illustration. As he puts it himself, very modestly:

      There were many happenings—repulsions of sudden attacks, temporary retirements, charges, and things of that sort that would have made capital subjects, but of which my notebook holds no 'pictured presentment,' because I was taking part in them.

      He also remarks:

      Sketched in circumstances that certainly had their own disadvantages as well as their special advantages, I present these drawings only for what they are.

      Just because they are what they are they are of enduring interest and permanent value. They have the vividness of the actual, the convincing touch of the true.

      Mr. Harvey was among the very first to obey the call of King and Country, tarrying only, I believe, to finish his afterwards popular poster of A Pair of Silk Stockings for the Criterion production. To join the Colours as a private soldier, he left his colours as an artist, throwing up an established and hardly-won position in the world of his profession, into which—sent home shot and poisoned—he must now fight his way back. His ante-war experiences of sojourn and travel in India, South and East Africa, South America, Egypt and the Mediterranean should again stand him in good stead, for the more an artist has learned the more comprehensive his treasury of impressions and recollections; the more he has seen the more he can show. To Mr. Harvey's studies of Egyptian life, character and customs was undoubtedly attributable the success of his Market Scene in Cairo, exhibited in the Royal Academy of 1909. Purchased by a French connoisseur, this picture brought its painter several special commissions.

      I venture to express the opinion that the simple, direct and soldierly style in which Mr. Harold Harvey has written the notes that accompany his illustrations will be appreciated. His reticence as regards his own doings, the casual nature of his references—where they could not be avoided—to his personal share in great achievements, manifest a spirit of self-effacement that is characteristic of the men of the army in which he fought; men whose like the world has never known.

      Robert Overton.

      To

      LADY ANGELA FORBES

      Whose Work for Soldiers in France and at Home has been as untiring as it has been unostentatious.

      CONTENTS

      SKETCHES

      Private Harold Harvey Frontispiece

      Aboard the Transport

      Bivouac at Malta

      Casement Gardens, Malta

      Sergeants' Mess

      Ordnance Department, Malta

      On the Quayhead at Marseilles

      Quayside, Marseilles

      Forty Passengers in each Cattle Truck

      A Wash and a Wait

      Doomsday Book: a French Lesson in a Cattle Truck

      Lady Angela Forbes's Soldiers' Home at Etaples

      Road to the Trenches

      My Sketch-Book

      Map: La Bassée-St. Julien

      Outskirts of a Village

      My First Sniping-Place

      Captured German Trench

      The Woodcutter's Hut

      Typical Figures and Figure-Heads

      Hammersmith Bridge

      Dirty Dick's

      Entrenching the Piano

      Seventy-Five Hotel

      Chicken Farm

      A French Comrade-Comedian

      A Trench Sniper, Resting

      A Traverse

      The Birth-Place of a Song

      Trench Periscope in Use

      The White Farm

      A German Sniper's Nest

      Suicide Bridge

      Suicide Signal Box

      A Ghastly Promenade

      The Hole in the Wall

      A Violated Convent

      Where Germans Raped and Murdered

      The Black Hole

      The Black Tower

      Where the

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