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Title: War Letters of a Public-School Boy

Author: Henry Paul Mainwaring Jones

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Language: English

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WAR LETTERS

OF A

PUBLIC-SCHOOL BOY

[Illustration: Lieut. Paul Jones.

(_From a Photograph by his Brother._)]

WAR LETTERS

OF A

PUBLIC-SCHOOL BOY

BY

PAUL JONES

Lieutenant of the Tank Corps

Scholar-Elect of Balliol College, Oxford: Head of the Modern Side
and Captain of Football, Dulwich College, 1914

WITH A MEMOIR BY HIS FATHER

HARRY JONES

_He was the very embodiment in himself of all that is best in the
public-school spirit, the very incarnation of self-sacrifice and
devotion._

A DULWICH MASTER.

WITH EIGHT PLATES

CASSELL AND COMPANY, LTD
London, New York, Toronto and Melbourne
1918

CONTENTS

Page
Introductory 1

PART I. MEMOIR

Chapter

1. Childhood 9
2. At Dulwich College 14
3. Football 28
4. Cricket 37
5. Editor of _The Alleynian_ 41
6. Public Schools and the War 47
7. Tastes and Hobbies 52
8. Music 59
9. Literature and Ethics 72
10. History and Polit