On the very same day as his brother, Arnold enrolled to serve in WW1. He signed up for the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserves and in April 1915 set sail on HMS India. A few short months later, he found himself floating in the North Sea. This is his story and the story of the men who found themselves interned in Norway for the remainder of the war. It is a story of loneliness and love. Of conflict and of isolation. It is a story from WW1 that is rarely told but one that deserves to be.
Rebecca Clarke, author of A Bare Chronicle of Existence - Stories and Letters from Internment in Norway during WW1, is very excited to announce the release of the recording of her interview with este ........
In April, I had the opportunity to introduce my book, A Bare Chronicle of Existence, to a new Australian audience. I was thrilled to be invited to give a talk at Martha Point village, and it was rece ........
I am starting to wonder when I will come to the bottom of the seemingly bottomless collection of documents and photographs from Arnold’s WW1 experience. Being back in Australia again, I have been s ........
Everytime I enter my father-in-law’s house I take the time to look at the two frames on the wall. The first one you pass as you walk from the front door contains a photograph of Wilfred in his WW1 a ........
Yesterday a letter arrived. It was a letter that I had been waiting for but it wasn’t addressed to me. The letter was one of Arnold’s. The one that my friend from choir had alerted me to. It was be ........
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