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Cecil John Charles Street (3 May 1884 – 8 December 1964), who was known to his colleagues, family and friends as John Street, began his military career as an
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. During the course of
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, he became a propagandist for MI7, in which role he held the rank of Major. After the armistice, he alternated between
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during the Irish War of Independence as Information Officer for
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, working closely with Lionel Curtis. He later earned his living as a prolific writer of detective novels.


Early life, education, and career

Street was born in
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, son of General John Alfred Street, CB, of Uplands, Woking, and his second wife, Caroline (born circa 1850), daughter of Charles Horsfall Bill, of Storthes Hall, Yorkshire, and The Priory, Tetbury, Gloucestershire, head of a landed gentry family. Caroline had married comparatively late, in 1881, and her only son was born when she was thirty five. General Street, having retired from the Army at the age of sixty two just after his son's birth, died suddenly at the family home. After his father's death, Street and his mother went to live with his maternal grandparents at their house, Firlands, Woking, which was "comfortably staffed with seven domestics". Street "remained modestly circumspect" about his privileged background in later life, "familiarity with Street's life and writing" displaying his valuing of "a man's personal accomplishments over his family heritage." Street was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire, then the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, and was commissioned into the
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in 1903, subsequently transferring into the Special Reserves. Before the
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, Street lived at Summerhill, a Regency country mansion outside Lyme Regis (later owned by A. S. Neill and run as a school, the name being subsequently used for his
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at Leiston, Suffolk), where he was a shareholder in, and chief engineer for, the Lyme Regis Electric Light & Power Company, Ltd. He would later serve as a Captain in the Royal Garrison Artillery, was wounded three times and won the Military Cross. As a Major, he headed a branch of British Military Intelligence and later as an Information Officer at the Headquarters of the British Administration, based in Dublin Castle.


Personal life

In 1906, Street married (Hyacinth) Maud, daughter of Major John Denis Kirwan, of the
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. They had a daughter, Verena Hyacinth Iris Street, who spent most of her life living with her paternal grandmother, and died in 1932 aged twenty five. The marriage was unsuccessful- his wife suffering mental imbalance and becoming a patient at a private asylum- and they were separated by the 1930s, when Street was living with Eileen Annette , daughter of civil engineer J. Edward Waller, whose father was the Irish writer John Francis Waller, of a landed gentry branch of the Waller baronets of
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. They married in 1949, shortly after his first wife's death. Street and his second wife lived "a comfortable life together", living in "attractive older homes" including The Orchards, Laddingford, Kent, and elsewhere in southern and central England, including Swanton Novers, Norfolk.


Novelist

John Street produced two long series of novels; one under the name of John Rhode, the majority featuring the academic Dr. Priestley,; another under the name of Miles Burton, the majority featuring the retired naval officer Desmond Merrion; and a third under the name Cecil Waye. The Dr. Priestley novels were among the first after Dr Thorndyke to feature scientific detection of crime, such as analysing the mud on a suspect's shoes. Desmond Merrion is an amateur detective who works with Scotland Yard's Inspector Arnold. Critic and author
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placed "John Rhode" as a prominent member of the "Humdrum" school of detective fiction. "Most of them came late to writing fiction, and few had much talent for it. They had some skill in constructing puzzles, nothing more, and ironically they fulfilled much better than S. S. Van Dine his dictum that the detective story properly belonged in the category of riddles or crossword puzzles. Most of the Humdrums were British, and among the best known of them were Major John Street ...". Symons' opinion has not however prevented the Rhode and Burton books becoming much sought after by collectors, and many of the early ones can command "eye-watering" high prices. Jacques Barzun and Wendell Hertig Taylor in their ''
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'' offer a different perspective to Symons, praising several of the Rhode books in particular, though they only review a small proportion of the more than 140 novels written by Street. The only detailed account of Street's life and works has been written by Curtis Evans: "I wrote my new book, ''Masters of the "Humdrum" Mystery: Cecil John Charles Street, Freeman Wills Crofts, Alfred Walter Stewart and the British Detective Novel, 1920–1961'' (published by McFarland Press) in part to give a long overdue reappraisal of these purportedly "humdrum" detection writers as accomplished literary artists. Not only did they produce a goodly number of fine fair play puzzles, but their clever tales have more intrinsic interest as social documents and even sometimes as literary novels than they have been credited with having."


Bibliography

This bibliography has been confirmed against a standard reference.


Writing as John Rhode


Dr. Priestley novels

Series characters: Lancelot Priestley, Inspector Hanslet and Inspector Jimmy Waghorn. * '' The Paddington Mystery'' (1925) * '' Dr. Priestley's Quest'' (1926) * '' The Ellerby Case'' (1927) * '' The Murders in Praed Street'' (1928) * ''Tragedy at the Unicorn'' (1928) * ''
The House on Tollard Ridge ''The House on Tollard Ridge'' is a 1929 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street. It marked the sixth appearance of the armchair detective Lancelot Priestley, who featured in a long-running series of novels ...
'' (1929). (On first publication in the U.S. the book was promoted as being by C J C Street) * '' The Davidson Case'' (1929) (U.S. title ''Murder at Bratton Grange''; on first publication in the U.S. the book was promoted as being by C J C Street) * '' Peril at Cranbury Hall'' (1930) * ''Pinehurst'' (1930) (U.S. title ''Dr. Priestley Investigates''; on first publication in the U.S. the book was promoted as being by C J C Street) * '' Tragedy on the Line'' (1931). (On first publication in the U.S. the book was promoted as being by C J C Street) * ''The Hanging Woman'' (1931) * ''Mystery at Greycombe Farm'' (1932) (U.S. title ''The Fire at Greycombe Farm''; on first publication in the U.S. the book was promoted as being by C J C Street) * '' Dead Men at the Folly'' (1932) * '' The Motor Rally Mystery'' (1933) (U.S. title ''Dr. Priestley Lays a Trap''; on its publication in the U.S. the book was promoted as being by C J C Street) * '' The Claverton Mystery'' (1933) (U.S. title ''The Claverton Affair'') * ''
The Venner Crime ''The Venner Crime'' is a 1933 detective novel by John Rhode, the pen name of the British writer Cecil Street. It is the sixteenth in his long-running series of novels featuring Lancelot Priestley, a Golden Age of Detective Fiction, Golden Age ar ...
'' (1933) * '' The Robthorne Mystery'' (1934) When one of the Robthorne twins commits suicide, there is a question over which one it is and whether it was suicide or murder. * '' Poison for One'' (1934) * '' Shot at Dawn'' (1934) * '' The Corpse in the Car'' (1935) Dr. Priestley solves how Lady Misterton was killed whilst sitting, alone, in her car. Supt Hanslet attempts to track down her killer. * '' Hendon's First Case'' (1935). (In first publication in the U.S. the book was promoted as being by C J C Street) * '' Mystery at Olympia'' (1935) (U.S. title ''Murder at the Motor Show'') * '' Death at Breakfast'' (1936) * '' In Face of the Verdict'' (1936) (U.S. title ''In the Face of the Verdict'') * '' Death in the Hopfields'' (1937) (U.S. title ''The Harvest Murder'') * '' Death on the Board'' (1937) (U.S. title ''Death Sits on the Board'') * '' Proceed with Caution'' (1937) (U.S. title ''Body Unidentified'') * '' Invisible Weapons'' (1938) * '' The Bloody Tower'' (1938) (U.S. title ''The Tower of Evil'') – Inspector Waghorn identifies a ruthless murderer and solves a set of clues to the whereabouts of long-hidden treasure * ''Death Pays a Dividend'' (1939) * ''Death on Sunday'' (1939) (U.S. title ''The Elm Tree Murder'') * '' Death on the Boat Train'' (1940) * '' Murder at Lilac Cottage'' (1940) * '' Death at the Helm'' (1941) * '' They Watched by Night'' (1941) (U.S. title ''Signal For Death'') * '' The Fourth Bomb'' (1942) * '' Dead on the Track'' (1943) * '' Men Die at Cyprus Lodge'' (1943) * '' Death Invades the Meeting'' (1944) * '' Vegetable Duck'' (1944) (U.S. title ''Too Many Suspects'') * '' Bricklayer's Arms'' (1945) (U.S. title ''Shadow of a Crime'') (Dr. Priestley plays only a minor role in this book, all the actual detection being done by Inspector Waghorn) * '' The Lake House'' (1946) (U.S. title ''Secret of the Lake House'') * '' Death in Harley Street'' (1946) * '' Nothing But the Truth'' (1947) (U.S. title ''Experiment in Crime'') * '' Death of an Author'' (1947) * '' The Paper Bag'' (1948) (U.S. title ''The Links in the Chain'') * '' The Telephone Call'' (1948) (U.S. title ''Shadow of an Alibi'') * '' Blackthorn House'' (1949) * ''
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'' (1949) (U.S. title ''The Fatal Garden'') * '' The Two Graphs'' (1950) (U.S. title ''Double Identities'') * '' Family Affairs'' (1950) (U.S. title ''The Last Suspect'') * '' The Secret Meeting'' (1951) * ''Dr. Goodwood's Locum'' (1951) (U.S. title ''The Affair of the Substitute Doctor'') * ''Death at the Dance'' (1952) * ''Death in Wellington Road'' (1952) * ''Death at the Inn'' (1953) (U.S. title ''The Case of the Forty Thieves'') – Inspector Waghorn breaks a gang of thieves who have found an ingenious way to defraud the Post Office and, along the way, murder a man by poisoning * ''By Registered Post'' (1953) (U.S. title ''The Mysterious Suspect'') * ''Death on the Lawn'' (1954) * ''The Dovebury Murders'' (1954) * ''Death of a Godmother'' (1955) (U.S. title ''Delayed Payment'') * ''The Domestic Agency'' (1955) (U.S. title ''Grave Matters''; on first publication in the U.S. the novel was promoted as being by C J C Street) * ''An Artist Dies'' (1956) (U.S. title ''Death of an Artist'') * ''Open Verdict'' (1956) * ''Death of a Bridegroom'' (1957) * ''Robbery With Violence'' (1957) * ''Death Takes a Partner'' (1958) * ''Licensed For Murder'' (1958) * ''Murder at Derivale'' (1958). (On first publication in the U.S. the book was promoted as being by C J C Street) * ''Three Cousins Die'' (1959) * ''The Fatal Pool'' (1960) * ''Twice Dead'' (1960) * ''The Vanishing Diary'' (1961)


Non-series novels

* ''A.S.F.: The Story of a Great Conspiracy'' (1924) (U.S. title ''The White Menace'') * '' The Double Florin'' (1924) * ''The Alarm'' (1925) * ''Mademoiselle From Armentieres'' (1927) * '' Drop to His Death'' (1939) (U.S. title ''Fatal Descent''; on its first publication in the U.S. the book was promoted as being solely by C J C Street), with "Carter Dickson", a pseudonym of John Dickson Carr * '' Night Exercise'' (1942) (U.S. title ''Dead of the Night''). Sir Hector Chalgrove, acerbic businessman and
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, disappears during a World War II night exercise. Major Ledbury (Officer Commanding the Wealdhurst Company, Home Guard) assists police to find the killer and assuage local suspicion of his guilt.


Non-fiction books

* ''The Case of Constance Kent''


Short stories

* ''The Elusive Bullet''. Stories of Detection, Mystery and Horror - Second Series, Ed. Dorothy L Sayers, 1931 (Dr. Priestley story). Reprinted: Bodies from the Library. Ed. Tony Medawar.
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, 2018 * ''The Vanishing Diamond''. The Great Book of Thrillers. Ed. H. Douglas Thomson, 1935 (Dr. Priestley story) * ''The Yellow Sphere''. '' Sunday Dispatch'', 3 April 1938. Reprinted: Bodies from the Library 3. Ed. Tony Medawar. HarperCollins, 2020. * ''The Purple Line''. ''
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'', 20 January 1950. Reprinted: Evening Standard Detective Book, 1950 (Inspector Purley story)


Non-fiction articles

* ''Constance Kent''. The Anatomy of Murder, Bodley Head, 1936 * ''Why People Like Detective Stories''. The Listener, 2 October 1935 * ''Unsolved Mysteries No. 6: Solution to the "Mystery of the Murdered Lieutenant"''. The Star, 1938


Stage plays

* ''Sixpennyworth''. Bodies from the Library 2. Ed. Tony Medawar. HarperCollins, 2019. The play features Inspector Jimmy Waghorn and is set in the lounge of The Spotted Dog, a pub in a town whose name is not given, "emphatically so"; the play features a neat method of creating an instant blackout. No performances have been identified


Radio plays

* ''Dr. Priestley'', BBC Empire Service, talk as part of the series 'Meet the Detective', 1935 * ''The Strange Affair at the Old Dutch Mill'', play featuring Inspector Jimmy Waghorn,
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, 7 October 1938, as part of the series 'What Happened at 8:20?" * ''Death Travels First'', two-part play featuring Inspector Jimmy Waghorn, BBC Home Service, 2 and 9 July 1940 as part of a series of plays by members of the Detection Club


Non-fiction radio programmes

* ''Thoughts of a Detective Story Writer'', BBC National Programme, 7, 14, 21 and 28 September 1935


Writing as Miles Burton


Desmond Merrion novels

Series characters: Desmond Merrion and Inspector Henry Arnold. * '' The Secret of High Eldersham'' (1930) (aka ''The Mystery of High Eldersham'') * ''The Menace on the Downs'' (1931) * ''The Three Crimes'' (1931) * ''Death of Mr. Gantley'' (1932) * ''Fate at the Fair'' (1933) * ''Tragedy at the Thirteenth Hole'' (1933) * ''Death at the Crossroads'' (1933) * ''To Catch A Thief'' (1934) * ''The Charabanc Mystery'' (1934) * ''The Devereux Court Mystery'' (1935) * ''The Milk Churn Murder'' (1935) (U.S. title ''The Clue of the Silver Brush'') * ''Where is Barbara Prentice?'' (1936) (U.S. title ''The Clue of the Silver Cellar'') * '' Death in the Tunnel'' (1936) (U.S. title ''Dark Is the Tunnel'') * '' Murder of a Chemist'' (1936) * '' Death at the Club'' (1937) (U.S. title ''The Clue of the Fourteen Keys'') * ''
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'' (1937) (U.S. title ''The Man with the Tattooed Face'') * '' Death at Low Tide'' (1938) * ''The Platinum Cat'' (1938) * ''Mr. Babbacombe Dies'' (1939) * ''Death Leaves No Card'' (1939) * '' Death Takes a Flat'' (1940) (U.S. title ''Vacancy With Corpse'') * ''Murder in the Coalhole'' (1940) (U.S. title ''Written in Dust'') * '' Mr. Westerby Missing'' (1940) * ''Up The Garden Path'' (1941) (U.S. title ''Death Visits Downspring'') * ''Death of Two Brothers'' (1941) * '' This Undesirable Residence'' (1942) (U.S. title ''Death at Ash House'') * ''Dead Stop'' (1943) * ''Murder M.D.'' (1943) (U.S. title ''Who Killed the Doctor?'') * ''Four-Ply Yarn'' (1944) (U.S. title ''The Shadow on the Cliff'') * ''The Three Corpse Trick'' (1944) * ''Early Morning Murder'' (1945) (U.S. title ''Accidents Do Happen'') * ''Not A Leg to Stand On'' (1945) * ''The Cat Jumps'' (1946) * ''
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'' (1946) -Two secretaries for Alys Whyttington die within months of each other. Arnold, Merrion and local confidant Mr Clipsham investigate the deaths and the mysterious past of Mrs Whyttington. * ''Heir to Lucifer'' (1947) * ''A Will in the Way'' (1947) * ''Devil's Reckoning'' (1948) * ''Death in Shallow Water'' (1948) * ''Death Takes the Living'' (1949) (U.S. title ''The Disappearing Parson'') * ''Look Alive'' (1949) * '' Ground for Suspicion'' (1950) * '' A Village Afraid'' (1950) * '' Beware Your Neighbour'' (1951) * ''Murder Out of School'' (1951) * ''Murder on Duty'' (1952) * ''Heir to Murder'' (1953) * ''Something to Hide'' (1953) * ''Murder in Absence'' (1954) * ''Unwanted Corpse'' (1954) * ''A Crime in Time'' (1955) * ''Murder Unrecognized'' (1955) * ''Death in a Duffle Coat'' (1956) * ''Found Drowned'' (1956) * ''The Chinese Puzzle'' (1957) * ''The Moth-Watch Murder'' (1957) * ''Bones in the Brickfield'' (1958) * ''Death Takes a Detour'' (1958) * ''Return from the Dead'' (1959) * ''A Smell of Smoke'' (1960) * ''Legacy of Death'' (1960) * ''Death Paints a Picture'' (1960)


Non-series novels

* ''The Hardway Diamonds Mystery'' (1930) * ''Murder at the Moorings'' (1932)


Unfinished material

* ''Untitled'', 48-page typescript of the opening chapters of an apparently non-series novel, set in the villages of Kildersham and Dreford and concerning a death at a pheasant shoot and a drowning.


Writing as Cecil Waye


"The Perrins" novels

Series characters: Christopher and Vivienne Perrin – 'Perrins, Private Investigators'. * ''Murder at Monk's Barn'' (1931) * ''The Figure of Eight'' (1931) * ''The End of the Chase'' (1932) * ''The Prime Minister's Pencil'' (1933)


Writing as F.O.O. (Forward Observation Officer)


Novels

* ''The Worldly Hope'' (Eveleigh Nash Company), 1917, a war novel.


Non-fiction books

* ''With the Guns'' (Eveleigh Nash Company), 1916 * ''The Making of a Gunner'', 1916


Writing as I.O. (Intelligence Officer)


Non-Fiction books

* ''The Administration of Ireland, 1920'', 1921 at Internet Archive


Writing as C. J. C. Street


Non-fiction books and pamphlets

*
Ireland in 1921
'Ireland in 1921''], 1922 Full text at Internet Archive *
Hungary and democracy;
'Hungary and Democracy''], 1923 Full text at Internet Archive * ''Rhineland and Ruhr'', Alfred Couldray, 1923
''East of Prague''
1924 Limited view at
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''The Treachery of France''
1924 Limited view at Google Books
''Lord Reading''
1928 Limited view at Google Books
''President Masaryk''
Bles, 1930


Translations

* ''French Headquarters: 1915-1918'' by Jean de Pierrefeu, 1925, translated with notes. * ''Vauban, Builder of Fortresses'' by Daniel Halvey, 1929, translated with notes. * ''The Life and Voyages of Captain Cook'' by Maurice Thiery, 1929, translated with notes.


Short fiction

* ''A Quiet Night Watch''. Launceston Examiner, 4 January 1918 * ''The Duel''. Hobart Mercury, 8 January 1918 * ''Paying a Morning Call''. New Zealand Times, 14 January 1918 * ''An Airman's Evening''. Oamaru Mail, 18 January 1918 * ''Ending a Nuisance''. Taranaki Herald, 21 January 1918 * ''A Night Alarm''. Newcastle Morning Herald & Miners' Advocate, 30 January 1918 * ''The Sacrifice''.
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, 18 February 1918 * ''Running the Gauntlet''. Hobart Daily Post, 22 February 1918 * ''The Counter Attack''. Taranaki Herald, 26 February 1918 * ''Gunner Morson, Signaller''. Trench and Camp (Camp Logan Edition), 11 March 1918 * ''Ready for Action, Sir''. Launceston Examiner, 12 April 1918 * ''An Overhaul''.
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, 13 April 1918 * ''Getting the Wind Up''. War Supplement for Week Ending 27 April 1918 * ''Stuck in the Mud''.
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, 2 June 1918 * ''An Unexpected Shot''.
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, 20 July 1918 * ''Under Fire''. Feilding Star, 29 July 1918. Reprinted; Taranaki Herald, 1 August 1918 * ''The Thick of It''.
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, 14 August 1918 * ''Not a Blank''. Leeds Mercury, 21 August 1918 * ''The Watcher''. (Washington) Sunday Star, 25 August 1918 * ''Guy Fawke’s Day''. Adelaide Journal, 21 September 1918


Short stories

* ''On the High Seas''.
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, September 1920 * ''TITLE UNKNOWN''. Lloyd's Story Magazine, September 1922 - Not confirmed * ''The Ship's Doctor''. Sea Stories, 5 October 1923


Non-fiction articles

* ''TITLE UNKNOWN''. Every Week Illustrated. 18 April 1914 - Not confirmed * ''The Time of Waiting: Synchronising Watches''. Perth Daily News, 7 June 1917 * ''Gives Mask to Girl and Dies''. Indianapolis Star, 9 December 1917 * ''The Artillery Signaller''.
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, 29 December 1917 * '' A New Army Battery: The Making of a Gunner''. Brisbane Courier, 1 January 1918 * ''The Artillery Duel''.
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, 1 January 1918 * ''On the Flank of the Battle''. Melbourne Leader, 12 January 1918 * ''On the High Seas''. Taranaki Herald, 18 January 1918 * ''A Combined Shoot''. National Advocate, 31 January 1918 * ''The Equipment of a Battery''. Oamaru Times, 2 February 1918 * ''The Heavy Artillery Chaplain''. Taranaki Herald, 22 February 1918 * ''Artillery Registration''. Newcastle Journal, 25 February 1918 * ''Gunners and Their Targets''.
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, 2 March 1918 * ''Barrage''.
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, 6 March 1918. * ''Supplying in the Field''. Straits Times, 12 March 1918 * ''Cambrai''. New Zealand Times, 12 March 1918 * ''In a German Gun-Pit''. Taranaki Herald, 20 March 1918 * ''The Hedjaz Railway''. Newcastle Morning Herald & Miners' Advocate, 2 April 1918 * ''Mechanical Transport''. New Zealand Herald, 6 April 1918 * ''Armentieres''. Wilmington Morning News, 6 April 1918 * ''The Paris Long Range Gun''. Leeds Mercury, 8 April 1918 * ''Artillery in War''.
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, 13 January 1918 * ''Reaping the Whirlwind''. Straits Times, 15 April 1918 * ''Watching a Shoot''. Every Week Illustrated, 18 April 1918 * ''Rifle First and Last''.
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, 20 April 1918 * ''Arabian Campaign Operations of the Arabs''. Launceston Daily Telegraph, 20 April 1918 * ''When Gas Ceases to be Deadly''.
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, 22 April 1918 * ''How Guns Move Forward''.
Darling Downs Gazette The ''Darling Downs Gazette'' was a newspaper published from 1848 to 1922 in Drayton and Toowoomba in Queensland, Australia. History ''The Darling Downs Gazette and General Advertiser'' was founded in 1858 by Arthur Sidney Lyon. The first issu ...
, 22 April 1918 * ''Muscle and Brain''. Daily Record, Monday 22 April 1918 * ''Constructional Material in the Field''. Oamaru Mail, 22 April 1918 * ''The Hedjaz Railway''. Taranaki Herald, 25 April 1918 * ''Artillery Ammunition''.
Nelson Evening Mail ''The Nelson Mail'' is a 4-day a week newspaper A newspaper is a Periodical literature, periodical publication containing written News, information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white or gray background. News ...
, 26 April 1918 * ''Importance of Amiens''.
Northern Whig The ''Northern Whig'' (from 1919 the ''Northern Whig and Belfast Post'') was a daily regional newspaper in Ireland which was first published in 1824 in Belfast when it was founded by Francis Dalzell Finlay. It was published twice weekly, Monday ...
, 27 April 1918 * ''Before the Dawn''. Taranaki Herald, 27 April 1918 * ''The Fall of Jericho''. Taranaki Herald, 27 April 1918 * ''The 'Number One. Mainland Daily Mercury, 27 April 1918 * ''Physical Training''. Leeds Mercury, 29 April 1918 * ''Austria's Next War''.
Maryborough Chronicle Maryborough may refer to: * Maryborough, Queensland, Australia ** Maryborough Base Hospital * Maryborough, Victoria, Australia * The former name of Portlaoise Portlaoise ( ), or Port Laoise (), is the county town of County Laois, Ireland. ...
, 3 May 1918 * ''The 'Number One': The Day's Work of an Artillery Sergeant''. Brisbane Courier, 7 May 1918 * ''A Junker's Boastings''. Tamworth Daily Observer, 8 May 1918 * ''Artillery in Modern War''. Perth Daily News, 13 May 1918 * ''The Right-of-Way''. Dominion, 14 May 1918 * ''A Forgotten Project''. Dominion, 14 May 1918 * ''Spying out the Land''. Perth Western Mail, 17 May 1918 * ''The Tail of the Convoy''. Taranaki Herald, 29 May 1918 * ''The Preliminary Bombardment''. The Age, 1 June 1918 * ''Artillery Training''. Taranaki Herald, 4 June 1918 * ''The Musketeers: The Tale of Their Adventures in France''. Newcastle Morning Herald & Miners' Advocate, 4 June 1918 * ''The Line of Fire''. Evening Star, 7 June 1918 * ''Artillery Ammunition, The Food of the Guns: How It Is Made''. Bowen Independent, 8 June 1918 * ''Mechanical Transport in War''. Singapore Free Press & Mercantile Advertiser, 8 June 1918 * ''Directing the Guns: How a Barrage is Controlled''. Launceston Examiner, 10 June 1918 * ''Towards the Front: How the Battery Goes up''. Maryborough Chronicle, 13 June 1918 * ''Artillery Registration''. Straits Times, 15 June 1918 * ''The Line of Fire: Modern Gunnery Methods''. Launceston Daily Telegraph, 15 June 1918 * ''Modern Gunnery''. Malaya Tribune, 18 June 1918 * ''British Forces in Italy, Their Important Task: Italian Chivalry''. Ballarat Star, 27 June 1918 * ''Slave of the Guns''. Sydney World's News, 29 June 1918 * ''Long Range Artillery''.
Cornhill Magazine ''The Cornhill Magazine'' (1860–1975) was a monthly Victorian magazine and literary journal named after the street address of the founding publisher Smith, Elder & Co. at 65 Cornhill in London.Laurel Brake and Marysa Demoor, ''Dictiona ...
, July 1918 * ''Artillery Training: The New Battery's First Days in Framce''. Ballarat Star, 13 July 1918 * ''Bombarded French City: Reims before the War, Its Former Attractions''. Ballarat Star, 15 July 1918 * ''The Day of Assault: What the Barrage Means''. Launceston Daily Telegraph, 18 July 1918 * ''War Shows Need of Long Forgotten Euphrates Road''. Lincoln Star, 21 July 1918 * ''In the Background: The Training of Personnel''. The Herald (Adelaide), 7 August 1918 * ''The Day of Assault''. Evening Post, 28 August 1918 * ''Side-Lines in Munition''. Doninion, 15 August 1918 * ''The Time of Waiting''. Dominion, 27 August 1918 * ''On the Highway''. Pictorial Supplement for Week Ending 31 August 1918 * ''The Bombing School: Modern Methods of Training''. Adelaide Journal, 31 August 1918 * ''Big Guns in Hiding''. Auckland Star, 31 August 1918 * ''My Billet''. Pictorial Supplement for Week Ending 6 September 1918 * ''War Clearly Proved Artillery Value''. (Wilmington) Daily Journal, 21 September 1918. Street's original title was 'Counter Battery Work' * The Mad English': Guy Fawke's Day''. Adelaide Journal, 21 September 1918 * ''The Liberty Columns''. Dominion, 24 September 1918 * ''Railways and Their Importance in War''. Windsor Magazine, September 1918 * ''Directing the Guns''. Windsor Magazine, October 1918 * ''Behind the Front: A Morning Drive in France''. Hobart Mercury, 28 October 1918 * ''My Billet''. Hobart Mercury, 29 October 1918 * ''A Prisoner of War Camp: The Link with Napoleonic War''. Hobart Mercury, 29 October 1918 * ''Munitions of War''. Auckland Star, 2 November 1918 * ''Destroying the Tower, a Risky Job: American Artillery Scores''. Grafton Argus & Clavener River General Advertiser, 4 November 1918 * ''Education at the Front''. The Age, 7 November 1918 * ''At the Crossroads''. The Age, 9 November 1918 * ''Artillery Training: The Telephonists''. Hobart Mercury, 9 November 1918 * ''Active Service Army Schools''. Sydney World's News, 9 November 1918 * ''Kite Balloon Section's Experience in Big Run''. Richmond Times-Dispatch, 15 November 1918 * ''The Value of the French Railway System in the War''. Toodyay Herald, 23 November 1918 * ''In the Background: The Repairs of Material''. Hobart Mercury, 28 November 1918 * ''Behind the Front''.
Boston Globe ''The Boston Globe'' is an American daily newspaper founded and based in Boston, Massachusetts. The newspaper has won a total of 27 Pulitzer Prizes, and has a total circulation of close to 300,000 print and digital subscribers. ''The Boston Glob ...
, 5 January 1919
''Propaganda behind the Lines''
Cornhill Magazine, November 1919 * ''Transport Problems and Reconstruction''. Windsor Magazine, December 1919 * ''Fuel and Power''. Windsor Magazine, March 1920 * ''The Fuel Problem and the Near Future''. Tambellup Times, 14 April 1920 * ''The Wireless Telephone and the Development of Modern Communications''. Windsor Magazine, June 1920 * ''Irish Secret Societies''. The Bookman, November 1922 * ''Slovak Peasant Art'', Illustrated Review, August 1923 * ''Railways of Czechoslovakia''. Railway Gazette, 14 December 1923 * ''Slovakia Past and Present''. Illustrated Review ot confirmed 1923 * ''Eastward through Czechoslovakia''. Illustrated Review ot confirmed 1923 * ''In the Land of the Ruthvenes''. Illustrated Review ot confirmed 1924 * ''Prelate Chancellor''. Daily Mail, Date unknown. Reprinted: Otago Daily Times, 6 August 1924 * ''The Hungarian Forgeries''.
The Observer ''The Observer'' is a British newspaper published on Sundays. It is a sister paper to ''The Guardian'' and '' The Guardian Weekly'', whose parent company Guardian Media Group Limited acquired it in 1993. First published in 1791, it is the ...
, 7 February 1926


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