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 one of two, with focus on enlistment and training.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 118-132 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research |
| Volume | 103 |
| Issue number | 413 |
| Publication status | Published - 27 Jun 2025 |
Bibliographical note
This journal appears in hard-copy format only for the first two years, at which point it appears via JSTORKeywords
- World War I
- modernism
- Blasting and Bombardiering
- memoir
- Wyndham Lewis
- War and culture studies
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