Sid G. Hedges (1897–1974)
Autor(a) de The Home Entertainer
About the Author
Image credit: Portrait of Sid G Hedges as an RAMC Orderly at Valetta in 1916. This item is from The Great War Archive, University of Oxford (www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa); © Fiona Hedges.
Obras por Sid G. Hedges
Games for Socials 3 exemplares
Junior club work 2 exemplares
The Channel Tunnel Mystery 2 exemplares
Tol the Swimmer 2 exemplares
Indoor and Community Games 2 exemplares
Seeing Europe Cheaply 1 exemplar
Modern Swimming 1 exemplar
Games to Play 1 exemplar
Games for Your Home 1 exemplar
The Complete Swimmer 1 exemplar
Educational fun for youth groups 1 exemplar
More Games for Socials 1 exemplar
Tales of Pendlecliffe School 1 exemplar
The Weir Boyd Mystery 1 exemplar
The Malta Mystery 1 exemplar
The Venetian Swimmer Mystery 1 exemplar
Plague Panic 1 exemplar
Mediterranean Mystery 1 exemplar
Swimming, Diving & Life-saving. 1 exemplar
Outdoor and Community Games 1 exemplar
Club Games for Outdoors 1 exemplar
Associated Works
Great Stories for Girls — Contribuidor — 1 exemplar
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Hedges, Sidney George
- Data de nascimento
- 1897-03-25
- Data de falecimento
- 1974-07-18
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- UK
- Local de nascimento
- Bicester, Oxfordshire, UK
- Locais de residência
- Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Hyde Park House, Edgeware Road, London, England, UK
Valetta, Malta - Ocupações
- draper's apprentice
medical orderly (1914-1918)
preacher
violin teacher - Organizações
- Royal Army Medical Corps
- Prémios e menções honrosas
- National Life Saving Society Award of Merit (1916)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Born the oldest son of George William and Mary Ann Hedges in Bicester. He became a draper's apprentice in London but joined the medical corps at the outbreak of WW1 by adding six months to his age. He had tunnel vision that would have kept him from active service but was persuaded by his church to register as a conscientious objector. He was posted to Valetta where he became a drill instructor but he found the screams of the injured greatly depressing. His younger brother Cecil died in a swimming accident during army training in 1918. Despite this, Sid went on to write several books on swimming.
After being demobilised in January 1919 he refused to return to the family draper's shop. He took violin lessons to develop the skill that he had learnt in Malta and practiced for 16 hours a day to earn his teaching diploma within 15 months.
His stories did not sell well at first but he persevered until he could support himself entirely by writing.
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 54
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 109
- Popularidade
- #178,011
- Avaliação
- 3.1
- Críticas
- 1
- ISBN
- 16