Imatge de l'autor

Sid G. Hedges (1897–1974)

Autor/a de The Home Entertainer

54+ obres 109 Membres 1 crítiques

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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

The Home Entertainer (1940) 18 exemplars
The Youth Sing Book (1970) 8 exemplars
Popular Party Games (1973) 3 exemplars
Our Boys' Gift Book (1929) 3 exemplars
Everybody's Book of Hobbies (2018) 3 exemplars
Indoor Games for Rainy Days (1975) 3 exemplars
Bicester wuz a little town (1968) 3 exemplars
Games for Socials 3 exemplars
Junior club work 2 exemplars
Youth Club Games and Contests (1964) 2 exemplars
Tol the Swimmer 2 exemplars
Diamond duel (1935) 2 exemplars
The Swim Book (1934) 2 exemplars
Indoor And Party Games (1930) 2 exemplars
Bible Fun (1970) 1 exemplars
Swimming is for Everyone (1974) 1 exemplars
Modern Swimming 1 exemplars
Games to Play 1 exemplars
Youth Club Activities (1945) 1 exemplars
The Sunday school ideas book (1955) 1 exemplars
Swimming in twelve lessons (1947) 1 exemplars
Games for Small Lawns (1933) 1 exemplars
Games for Your Home 1 exemplars
Knowledge for the Growing Boy (1940) 1 exemplars
Fun for the Not-So-Young (1958) 1 exemplars
The Malta Mystery 1 exemplars
Plague Panic 1 exemplars
With One Voice (1970) 1 exemplars
The Girls' Book of Swimming. (1927) 1 exemplars
Ice and Roller Skating (1923) 1 exemplars
Be Your Own Boss (1944) 1 exemplars

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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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Nice bobble hat and orange stripey scarf, socks on the worried looking skater who adorns the front cover
 
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jon1lambert | Dec 14, 2012 |

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Obres
54
També de
1
Membres
109
Popularitat
#178,011
Valoració
3.1
Ressenyes
1
ISBN
16

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