1. Aubrey Herbert MP. (Author’s collection)
2. George Fletcher (right) with his brother ‘Leslie’, c.1892. (Private collection)
3. A leaving breakfast at Eton in summer 1913. Major John ‘Marcus’ de Paravicini (left) and Ronnie Backus (right) are just to the left of the centre pole, their backs to each other.(Private collection)
4. From left to right: Hugh, Guy and Harry Cholmeley. The strapping on Harry’s jaw hides wounds received at Neuve Chapelle. (Private collection)
5. 2nd Lt Walter ‘George’ Fletcher, 2nd Royal Welsh Fusiliers. (Author’s collection)
6. Captain Francis Octavius Grenfell VC (left) and his twin Captain Riversdale Nonus Grenfell, 9th Lancers. (Author’s collection)
7. 2nd Lt Charles William North Garstin, 9th Lancers. (Author’s collection)
8. Detail from a fanciful portrayal of the 9th Lancers saving the guns on 24 August 1914 as it appeared in the pictorial press. (Author’s collection)
9. Lt The Hon. John Neville Manners in his cricket whites at Eton, 1910. (Private collection)
10. 2nd Lt John Reynolds Pickersgill-Cunliffe, at Eton c.1908. (Private collection)
11. Men of the 2nd Grenadier Guards are saluted by the king, August 1914. Jack Pickersgill-Cunliffe is marked by a cross. (Private collection)
12. George Llewelyn Davies, 4th Rifle Brigade. (Author’s collection)
13. Guards Grave Cemetery as it looked after the war, when Rudyard Kipling described it as ‘the prettiest cemetery on the Western Front’. (Private collection)
14. 2nd Lt Gerard Frederick Freeman-Thomas, 1st Coldstream Guards (rear) with his brother Inigo at Eton in 1912. (Author’s collection)
15. 2nd Lt Reginald William Fletcher, Royal Field Artilley. Taken at Oxford in 1914. (Author’s collection)
16. George Fletcher (right) shares his love of climbing with his brother Regie on the Isle of Skye, summer 1914. (Author’s collection)
17. Lieutenant Lord Worsley, Royal Horse Guards. (Author’s collection)
18. An officer tries to make his way down a waterlogged trench in George Fletcher’s sector at Bois Grenier, spring 1915. (Author’s collection)
19. Lt Douglas Lennox Harvey, 9th Lancers. (Author’s collection)
20. The staff of The Outsider pictured at Eton in 1906. L–R: Patrick Shaw-Stewart, The Hon. Julian Grenfell, Ronald Knox, Robin Laffan, Edward Horner, Cecil Gold and The Hon. Charles Alfred Lister. (Eton College/Private collection)
21. 2nd Lt The Hon. Gerald William (‘Billy’) Grenfell, 8th Rifle Brigade. (Author’s collection)
22. Captain The Hon. Edward James ‘Ted’ Kay-Shuttleworth, 7th Rifle Brigade. (Author’s collection)
23. 2nd Lt The Hon. Yvo Alan Charteris, 1st Grenadier Guards. (Author’s collection)
24. 2nd Lt John ‘Robin’ Blacker, 1st Coldstream Guards. Pictured just before leaving Eton in 1915. (Private collection)
25. Captain Lord Elcho (Ego Charteris), Royal Gloucestershire Hussars. (Author’s collection)
26. The Battle of Loos.
27. Captain Alexander Dobree Young-Herries, 2nd King’s Own Scottish Borderers. (Author’s collection)
28. Captain Henry Nevill Lancaster Dundas, 1st Scots Guards. (Author’s collection)
29. Major William (‘Billy’) La Touche Congreve VC. (Author’s collection)
30. Wounded men struggle across the barren landscape around Ginchy, September 1916. (Author’s collection)
31. A group of officers of the 8th Rifle Brigade 1915, including ‘Ronnie’ Backus, (back right), ‘Foss’ Prior (front right), and Arthur Sheepshanks (front centre). (Private collection)
32. 2nd Lt Richard William Byrd Levett, 1st King’s Royal Rifle Corps, pictured in his Eton OTC uniform c. 1914. (Author’s collection)
33. Captain Ian Patrick Robert Napier (left) and Lt John Hay Caldwell, RFC, pictured outside Mr Byrne’s house at Eton c.1912. ‘Jack’ Caldwell’s body was found in the Mesopotamian desert in 1918 just a few miles from home after he crashed, fled Turkish capture and tried to find his way to British lines. (Private collection)
34. Ian Napier watches on as a mechanic works on his aeroplane on Agars Plough at Eton. (Private collection)
35. Logie Leggatt as a child in India c.1897. (Private collection)
36. Logie Leggatt at Eton in 1912. (Private collection)
37. 2nd Lt Logie Colin Leggatt, 2nd Coldstream Guards. (Private collection)
38. Lt Marc Anthony Patrick Noble, Royal Field Artillery. (Author’s collection)
39. Cambrai, 1917.
40. Lt Col Eric Beresford Greer, 2nd Irish Guards. (Private collection)
41. Example of one of Eric Greer’s sketches that appeared in the national press in tandem with Henry Dundas’ poems during the summer of 1917. (Private collection)
42. Eric Greer’s bride, Pamela Fitzgerald, pictured before her marriage. (Private collection)
43. Excerpt from one of Henry Dundas’ satirical poems, typed at brigade headquarters in 1917. (Private collection)
44. German offensive on the Somme. 1918
45. Captain Ralph Dominic Gamble, 1st Coldstream Guards. Pictured just before leaving Eton in spring 1916. (Author’s collection)
46. Ralph Gamble a little over a year later. The strain of war is apparent. (Private collection)
47. Logie Leggatt’s menu from the elaborate 4 June dinner at St Omer, 1917, signed by Ralph Gamble, Henry Dundas, Viscount Holmesdale and Charlie Hambro, among others. (Private collection)
48. Henry Dundas (far left) instructing a group of Guardsmen in bombing. (Private collection)
49. Men of the Guards Division cross the Yser Canal, 31 July 1917. (Author’s collection)
50. Captain Victor Alexander (‘Teenie’) Cazalet, Household Cavalry Regiment. Pictured at Eton in 1915. (Private collection)
51. RMS Lusitania. The torpedo struck between the first and second funnels on the side shown. (Eric Sauder Collection)
52. Lieutenant-Commander Geoffrey Heneage Drummond VC. (Private collection)
53. HMS Invincible on fire at the Battle of Jutland, 31 May 1916. (Author’s collection)
54. Henry Dundas with his blackthorn stick. (Private collection)
55. 2nd Lt Reginald ‘Rex’ Mendel, Royal Field Artillery. (Private collection)
56. Lt David Stuart Barclay, 1st Scots Guards. (Private Collection)
57. ‘Audley’ Drake. (Private collection)
58. Charles Fletcher pictured with dog, possibly Regie’s Muncles. (Private collection)
59. 2nd Lt Charles Austin Pittar, Coldstream Guards. Pictured after the war at Oxford. (Private collection)
60. Bruno Schroeder, the only Old Etonian known to have fought with the Kaiser’s army during the Great War. (Private collection)
61. Etonian Generals pose for a group photograph with the school’s hierarchy on a visit to Eton, 20 May 1919. Back Row: Lt Gen Sir T. D’O. Snow, Maj Gen J. Ponsonby (‘General John’), Maj Gen R.L. Mullens, Maj Gen The Hon. E.I. Montague-Stuart-Wortley, Maj Gen Sir H.S. Jeudwine, Maj Gen A.E. Sandbach. Middle Row: Dr A.J. Butler, Sir Henry Babington Smith, Maj Gen C.R.R. McGrigor, A.B. Ramsey, Maj Gen C.F. Romer, Lt Gen Sir W.P. Pulteneny (front), Maj Gen Hon. Sir W. Lambton, Lt. Gen Sir W.T. Furse, Maj Gen H.R. Davies, Lt Gen Sir F.J. Davies, Lt Gen Earl of Cavan, Lt. Gen Sir C. Fergusson Bt. Front Row: Gen Sir H.S. Rawlinson, Dr M.R. James, Gen Sir H.C.O. Plumer, Rev C.A. Alington, Gen Hon Sir J.H. Byng, F.H. Rawlins. (Eton College)
62. Hubert Brinton. (Private collection)
63. Henry Dundas’ father looks out over Canal du Nord on a trip to the battlefields in the early 1920s. (Private collection)
64. Pam Greer with her daughter Erica just weeks before her own death in 1918. (Private collection)