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23 December 1915 : Roland Aubrey Leighton

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Roland Aubrey Leighton was born on 27 March 1895 in St.John's Wood, London. He was the oldest surviving child of literary parents, Robert Leighton ('man of letters') and Marie (née Connor), a novelist. As a result of the guilt following the death of her first child, Marie spoilt Roland and neglected his younger siblings-sister Clare and brother...


Letters From A Lost Generation

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ISBN: 0-316-64664-4  Hardback 427 pp  £18.99 Published by Little, Brown.  In these days of emails and texts, letters are not used widely as a means of communication. During the Great War however, letters were one of the few methods of keeping in touch. These letters give a more complete picture of Vera Brittain and the 4 men who she writes abou...