Lost Generations

A biography on the lives of those members of the College of Corpus Christi and of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Cambridge who died undertaking military service during the First World War, 1914 to 1919. Using a wide range of sources and images this work provides a case study of the First World War as it impacted on the lives of the then current and former members of Corpus Christi College, a small and ancient institution within the University of Cambridge. Not only does this book chronicle the lives of those Corpus men who were killed during the conflict and its aftermath (where possible using their own words or those who knew them, supplemented by images from their time at the College), it also tracks the lives of all the alumni known to have served in the British and imperial armed forces. In this unique manner this work tells the story of those lost generations who during that murderous conflict were confronted with what proved the ultimate test: a test that shook to its very foundations not just institutions like Corpus Christi College but the whole of British society.