Sid G. Hedges (1897–1974)
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Sobre l'autor
Crèdit de la imatge: 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.
Obres de Sid G. Hedges
Games for Socials 3 exemplars
Junior club work 2 exemplars
The Channel Tunnel Mystery 2 exemplars
Tol the Swimmer 2 exemplars
Indoor and Community Games 2 exemplars
Seeing Europe Cheaply 1 exemplars
Modern Swimming 1 exemplars
Games to Play 1 exemplars
Games for Your Home 1 exemplars
The Complete Swimmer 1 exemplars
Educational fun for youth groups 1 exemplars
More Games for Socials 1 exemplars
Tales of Pendlecliffe School 1 exemplars
The Weir Boyd Mystery 1 exemplars
The Malta Mystery 1 exemplars
The Venetian Swimmer Mystery 1 exemplars
Plague Panic 1 exemplars
Mediterranean Mystery 1 exemplars
Swimming, Diving & Life-saving. 1 exemplars
Outdoor and Community Games 1 exemplars
Club Games for Outdoors 1 exemplars
Tom Thumb tales, with morals if you want them 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Great Stories for Girls — Col·laborador — 1 exemplars
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- Nom oficial
- Hedges, Sidney George
- Data de naixement
- 1897-03-25
- Data de defunció
- 1974-07-18
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Bicester, Oxfordshire, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Bicester, Oxfordshire, England, UK
Hyde Park House, Edgeware Road, London, England, UK
Valetta, Malta - Professions
- draper's apprentice
medical orderly (1914-1918)
preacher
violin teacher - Organitzacions
- Royal Army Medical Corps
- Premis i honors
- National Life Saving Society Award of Merit (1916)
- Biografia breu
- 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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- Obres
- 54
- També de
- 1
- Membres
- 109
- Popularitat
- #178,011
- Valoració
- 3.1
- Ressenyes
- 1
- ISBN
- 16