G Dawnay

[tr ed p 384], pencil, Lamb

'G. Dawnay' typeset brc. Palest image in grey, on natural paper colour.

Brig-General Guy Dawnay, on Allenby's staff.

p 365 [tr ed p 383] - ' Dawnay was mainly intellect. He lacked the eagerness of Bols, and the calm drive and human understanding of Allenby, who was the man the men worked for, the image we worshipped. Dawnay's cold, shy mind gazed upon our efforts with bleak eye, always thinking, thinking. Beneath this mathematical surface he hid passionate many-sided convictions, a reasoned scholarship in higher warfare, and the brilliant bitterness of a judgement disappointed with us, and with life.

'He was the least professional of soldiers, a banker who read Greek history, a strategist unashamed, and a burning poet with strength over daily things.'

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