Word: beith
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Dates: during 1916-1916
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Captain Ian Hay Beith, British soldier and author, will lecture on "The Human Side of French Warfare" in Sanders Theatre this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Tickets at one dollar may be obtained at Amee's and at the door, the proceeds of the lecture going to the Cambridge Surgical Dressings Committee, which supplies medical materials for the Harvard Surgical Unit in France...
...Captain Beith was just under the maximum age limit for enlistment at the outbreak of the war and immediately enrolled in the Tenth Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, which went into training at Aldershot in the fall of 1914. The regiment remained in training for six months and were finally sent to the front in the spring of 1915 as members of the first detachment of England's volunteer army. Captain Beith's ability and courage soon won him a commission and he rose rapidly to the rank of captain. He has recently been granted a furlough by the British...
...book, "The First Hundred Thousand," written under the pen-name of Ian Hay, Captain Beith has collected his most interesting and entertaining experiences at Aldershot and "somewhere in France" as typical of the life of a British volunteer...
...Lecture for the benefit of the Cambridge Surgical Dressings Committee. "The Human Side of Trenell Warfare," by Captain Ian Hay Beith, of the Tenth Argyle and Sutherland Highlanders. Sanders Theatre...
Captain Ian Hay Beith, better known under the pen-name Ian Hay as the author of "The First Hundred Thousand," will lecture in Sanders Theatre next Monday afternoon, December 11, at 4 o'clock, under the auspices of the Cambridge Surgical Dressing Committee, Captain Beith has been sent to this country by the British government to explain Britain's part in the war. He has already lectured on his experiences, both in the training camp at Aldershot and at the front, at both Yale and Princeton...