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''Sir Arthur Conan Doyle'' is an article published in [[The War Illustrated]] on 28 july 1917. ...strated-1917-07-28-sir-arthur-conan-doyle-p518.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[The War Illustrated]]<br />(28 july 1917, p. 518)]] ...

...not for publication), was in my study the other day, and seeing Childers' War and the ''Arme Blanche'' upon my desk, he took it up with the remark, "This ...

questions are overshadowed by that prolonged and terrible war of us into mourning. Now at last we have won our way through ...

...ith his apologia for the Boer War. The loss of his eldest son in the World War was largely responsible for his devotion to spiritism during his later year ...

...be healthier without it — You will be richer without it. Sign off for the war." The whisky sellers know the power of suggestion, as our hoardings testify ...

* 22.06.1903 : [[The Medal of Brigadier Gerard|How the Brigadier Won his Medal]] 1/6 (1 ill. by [[Charles N. Landon]]) * 23.06.1903 : [[The Medal of Brigadier Gerard|How the Brigadier Won his Medal]] 2/6 (1 ill. ") " ...

...ve would confront us with a menace as dangerous to civilisation as the pre-war Germany. ...

...effect that men who have had no training will be called earlier than those who can show the certificate of a Volunteer commandant that they are well up in ...I know that every man of that unit who has found his way into the Army has won his non-commissioned striped with very little delay. Considering that many ...

...owards the close of 1900, I added a chapter on the military lessons of the war, which was omitted in subsequent editions, not because I felt that my views ...we should put aside our dearly-won experience, and follow German theorists who have never seen a shot fired in anger. ...

...England because his father was accused to be a British spy during the Boer war. He discovered the stage during his school days at Repton School in London, ...ol Scottish Regiment. He won the Military Cross for his bravery. After the war, he came back to stage and played in several plays which met success, then ...

...m-Chair Trip to the Seat of War|"The Sketch" Arm-Chair Trip to the Seat of War]] (2 photos) * 14.11.1900 : [[Two More Books on the South African War]] ...

...ation of strength and gentleness, independence and loyalty, and anyone who won his friendship never lost it. ...and then was a medical student at St. Mary's Hospital till the outbreak of war, when he went out with the 1st City of London Medical Transport to Malta as ...

''Mr. Winston Churchill and Dr. Conan Doyle on the War'' is an article published in [[The Times]] on 26 october 1900. == Mr. Winston Churchill and Dr. Conan Doyle on the War == ...

''Sir A. Conan Doyle. Australia's Part in the War'' is an interview of [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] first published as an article i == Sir A. Conan Doyle. Australia's Part in the War == ...

...Years'' is an article written by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] published in [[The War Illustrated]] on 4 august 1917. ...ated-1917-08-04-the-marvel-of-three-years-p518.jpg|thumb|250px|right|[[The War Illustrated]]<br />(4 august 1917, p. 518)]] ...

''Ypres'' is a poem about First World War written by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] first published in [[The Queen's Gift Boo ...West Flanders. Ypres occupied a strategic position during the First World War because it stood in the path of Germany's planned sweep across the rest of ...

Sir, — An Englishman who travels in the United States comes politician who is in search of his vote. But no such superficial ...

...an attack from the Very Rev. William R. Inge, Dean of St. Paul's, London, who is known to the newspapers as the "Gloomy Dean," owing to his sometimes des The Dean added that spiritualistic phenomena had won the assent of men of science like Crooks, Lodge, Flammarion, and Lombroso, ...

* 13.11.1900 : [[The Author's Club: Conan Doyle on the War]] * 04.12.1901 : [[Dr. Conan Doyle and the War]] ...

"If they won't I won't go in, either," she added. "What did the people who didn't escape think about it?" ...

...7 july 1930 [US]) as ''The Late Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Final's Look on the War'' ...day Star (Washington D.C.)]]'' (27 july 1930 [US]) as ''Conan Doyle on the War'' ...

...in writing his powerful book on the Boer war which so stirred the British War office. ...student studying under [[Joseph Bell|Dr. Joseph Bell]] in Edinburgh, a man who was to be utilized as the model for one of the unique characters in English ...

...ow," St. Leonards-on-Sea, a beautiful home for these tragic victims of the war has been provided, and our purpose is to equip and endow it in the name of ...of his biographer, Forster, they were "not merely his clients, for whom he won the laughter and applause of all the world, but, in sort, his very self." ...

''The Outlook on the War'' is a pamphlet written by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] published on 24 october 1 ...'' (25 october 1915, [[The Daily Chronicle]] [UK]) as ''The Outlook on the War'' ...

Have played a match with death and won?<br /> But who has made that page save he?<br /> ...

When the nation sums up its debt of gratitude to the men who have spent themselves in this war I fear that they will almost ...

...bert Wood aka "Woodie" (23 april 1866 - 19 april 1941) was a school master who became friend, private secretary and business manager to [[Arthur Conan Doy Throughout the Great War he served in [[France]] in the 5th Royal Sussex Territorials, where he was ...

...erses, the official — or, at any rate, semi-official — history of the Boer War, some first-rate short stories (has he not been for many years one of the p ...ut, still, something which is not found in the normal, healthy man — a man who possesses a perfectly healthy mind and body. Whenever I have wanted to refu ...

...hat they were glad to welcome Sir Conan Doyle as one of the big Britishers who had given them courage and hope in their hour of trial. ...old Ireland, which, according to the poet Watson, "we have --ed but never won." He could assure them that they were anxious to win her, but unfortunately ...

...n unique distinction as a Knight of St. John of Jerusalem. During the Boer War he was Senior Physician of the Langham Field Hospital, South Africa. The La ...ence was situated, he offered a considerable reward to the Scout or Scouts who could find the hidden objects. He issued a description of the snakes and su ...

* 15.04.1922 : [[Mother Who Killed Baby Takes Poison and Writes Spouse She, in Spirit World, Will Guide * 15.04.1922 : [[Conan Doyle's Idea Won Diseased Wife]] ...

...hard defensive and constructive period which covers the first half of the war. The present moment seems a fitting one for a short review of his work so f ...point in Flanders. It was a remarkable piece of organisation for which the War Office and transport service are to be thanked, but which could not have be ...

* in ''[[The Belfast News-Letter]]'' (28 november 1916 [UK]) as ''With the War Workers'' ...even now in its partially finished state its products are essential to the war, and its output has entirely changed all the supply of the present and the ...

...roll of papyrus which he had just unrolled. Before him stood the messenger who had brought it, a swarthy little Italian, whose black eyes were glazed with ...he less the truth that it is no country of ours, and that we hold it as we won it by the sword." ...

...Arthur Conan Doyle on his arrival in New York last Wednesday, for any one who would visit New York City In the Summer time is immediately suspected of so ...England. I have many very good friends among the militants and among those who favor the militant movement. Now, what I did say to your reporters was that ...

...-day, "The English Army, trained more for purposes of show than for modern war," adding in the same sentence a sneer at our "inferior Colonial levies." ...s next edition, or rather for the learned volume upon Germany and the Last War which will no doubt come from his pen. He is a man to whom we might well ra ...

...enabled him to go to Emmanuel College, Cambridge. Whilst he was there the war broke out. He joined up and, after several intermediate stages, found himse one who would naturally give us psychic help from the other side. ...

Arthur Conan Doyle, who was born in Edinburgh on May 22, 1859, came of artistic stock. His father, ...Field Hospital, and his popular history of the operations, "The Great Boer War," went through sixteen editions. ...

The long battle is nearly won. The future may be chequered. It may hold many a set-back and many a disapp It has always seemed certain to those who were in touch with truth, that if any inspired document of the new revelati ...

...icle written by [[Arthur Conan Doyle]] first published in [[The Great Boer War]] (23 october 1900, [[Smith, Elder & Co.]]). The article was removed after * in ''[[McClure's Magazine]]'' (october 1900 [US]) as ''Some Lessons of the War'' ...

...Doyle's recently published tract in defense of Great Britain and the Boor War; by far the most thorough, elaborate, and important statement of the Britis ...gues in Christendom with bitter gossip and blame. Were the Franco-Prussian War to be duplicated to-day, with a press correspondent in every village, and t ...

Eric Porter (8 april 1928 - 15 may 1995) was a British actor who played [[Professor Moriarty]] in 3 episodes of the TV series [[Sherlock Hol ..., but he is reported to have said that, if Nyree Dawn Porter (no relation) who played the part of his wife Irene in the Forsyte Saga had not been already ...

* 11.10.1896 : [[Dr. Conan Doyle won the cricket match almost by himself]] (end of col g) * 02.03.1902 : [[Conan Doyle on Boer War]] ...

File:british-commando-strand-juin-1901-3.jpg|War relics from South Africa. ...that. We marked points on the hillsides, and the competition consisted in who should guess the distance most correctly. The judging was on the whole very ...

The British team won the race. The trophy was an ivory statue of a young lady with the word "pea '''In The German War''' ...

...s between German bomber and fighter pilots and their controllers. When the war ended she remained in the WRAF, rising through its ranks to become its Dire ...RAF Coastal Command in World War II and later Governor of the Isle of Man, who had been widowed in 1961. In retirement they divided their time between the ...

...generous woman, participated in Red Cross actions during the Second World War and presided over the Berkswell Women's Institute. Brett spent a happy chil ...establishment where strict discipline prevailed. At the age of sixteen, he won the college swimming competition. But his repeated plunges into the turbid ...

...es with spiritism. Sir Arthur lost ten members of his household during the war. He writes: "Thank God, I have since found that the gates are not shut, but ...to the senseless noises which had made life unendurable for the occupants, who were tied by a lease and could not get away. We sat up there two nights. On ...

...is undoubtedly true. For there is hardly a man, woman or child in America who is not acquainted with his name, as that of the creator of that world-famed ...h to touch in the following brief notes, which may be of interest to those who come in contact with Sir Arthur during the few weeks which he proposes to s ...

alas, died in the first World war, and Mary elder brothers, Dennis, who died in the ...