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However, by the time of the birth of their first child, they were together at his flat, 4D Hyde Park
Mansions, where their son Geoffrey was born on 12 April 1901. And by the time of the birth of their daughter, Joan on 5 July 1903, they had moved just around the corner to another flat in another building, 11B Oxford and Cambridge Mansions. Both of these mansion buildings north of Hyde Park, between Edgware Rd. and Marylebone Rd., have a very distinctive and similar architecture. « Built in 1885, the Hyde Park, Oxford and Cambridge mansions are some of the capitalâs most enduring examples of Victorian architecture. The buildings highlight a unique period in the nationâs history when the upper-middle class longed for expansive flats and substantial leases, but without the responsibilities of a house and access to porters to service the property. »
545:"special services as a field hospital could not as yet be called in" - did they finally continue on to Mladenovatz ("some forty miles from Belgrade"), where the "First British Field Hospital for Serbia would - "in due course (be) transferred." And where they would stay until: "On September 28th, 1915, we left Mladenovatz, and it is from that date that we may reckon the beginning of the long and eventful journeyingânearly three monthsâthat carried us across Serbia and Montenegro and has eventually landed us here at Scutari in Albania. Where and when the end will be I cannot yet say. We were bound for Pirot, a little town on the Bulgarian frontier, where our army was concentrating against an attack, which was regarded as imminent. .... â
494:. As Claude himself describes their role: "As for Alice and myself, we went out essentially as writers, though we were prepared to turn our hands to odd jobs if called upon to do so. We had assisted Dr. Hartnell Beavis in London with the formation of the unit, the raising of funds, and the collection of stores. It was the reports in the English Press of the terrible state into which Serbia had fallen during the winter of 1914â1915 that first inspired us to work for that gallant little country." He wrote this in their personal account of their experiences and impressions accompanying the Serbian army on its famous 'Great Retreat' across the mountains from
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Belgian R. A. M. C., Dr. Jellett, the Dublin gynĂŠcologist; Claude and Alice Askew, the novelists (since drowned in a submarine attack); Miss McNaughton, authoress; Mrs. Knocker and Miss
Chisholme; Mr. Hunt of Yokohama and Mr. Sekkar, a great sport and our good friend. All their ambulances were stored in our front yard, numbering over twenty. With them were four jolly young gentlemen-amateur chauffeurs who soon became our friends. These people worked mostly at night, gathering the wounded and removing them under cover of darkness. We received all those who could not travel further into France. ....
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Borissavljevitch, President of the
Serbian Red Cross â her address is care of him. I was anxious for her, in those days of submarines, until I heard she had safely arrived â that was by telegram â I have no letter from her yet, but it takes as long for a letter to get here from Corfu as from England. If I can get leave, which is very doubtful, I may join her later on for a month, but one cannot see into the future and all sorts of things may happen out here." "This letter is among the family artefacts now in my possession â previously in that of G.M.A." âR.C.A.
477:(London: John Long, 1915). "This is an entirely new story, now for the first time published, by those favourite authors, Alice and Claude Askew. It opens in England at the beginning of the war, and contains very strong love interest and exciting dramatic situations. The scene rapidly shifts to Belgium, and Mrs. Claude Askew, owing to what she has recently seen with her own eyes at the Belgian Field Hospital at Fumes, is able to give some most realistic and interesting pictures from her own experience of Red Cross work." And they also wrote another novel,
584:, Claude was back with the Serbian army â now at Salonika, where he was working out of its Press Bureau. But Alice remained in London to give birth to her third child, who was born towards the end of July 1916. She was also spending the time in England soliciting support for the relief work with Serbia. But in October she also returned to the theatre of war and was with her husband Claude in Salonika until about the end of April of the following year, when she went to Corfu to work with the Serbian Red Cross there, under Colonel Borissavljevitch.
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858:, Tuesday, 16 October 1917, and Thursday, 18 October 1917 (page numbers unknown) â the first reporting Alice Askew and her husband Claude "drowned in a torpedoed vessel in the Mediterranean on October 5"; while the second that "the Italian steamer Bari, (...) was torpedoed by a German submarine off the Ionian Islands at 4 a.m. on October 6". "These clippings are among the family artefacts now in my possession â previously in that of my aunt, Alice Askew's youngest child, G.M.A. (the late Gilian Margaret Askew)" âR.C.A. (Robin Cary Askew)
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427:... We lived in Furnes from October 18th to January 15th. All the time we were in Belgium we were never out of hearing of the constant boom and thunder of artillery, and at night the sky was afire with the battle going on to the east of us, about three miles away. Our life was a complex thing to describe; there was a constant coming and going of outsiders. People came to Furnes to see things---great people. The college being large and other accommodation in the town nil, we put them up, and they were our guests for the time being.
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1474:, of Tuesday, October 16, 2017, under the heading: "Alice and Claude Askew. Tragic Death of Famous Novelists. In A Torpedoed Ship." And containing the passage: « The last communication from Major Askew was received by his brother, Mr. Hugh Askew, now in London, and in the letter, dated Rome, September 30, Major Askew said:â "We are leaving here to-night to return to Corfu." » "This clipping is among the family artefacts now in my possession â previously in that of G.M.A." âR.C.A.
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118:. He was the second son and youngest of five children of Fanny Georgiana Charlotte Askew, nĂ©e Browne (1830â1900) and Rev. John Askew, M.A. (1804â1881). Claude's older sisters and brother were: Amy Ellen Cary Askew (10 June 1857 â 29 April 1945), Isabel Emily Florence Askew (16 November 1858 â 30 October 1928), Mabel Fanny Mary Askew (23 February 1861 â 21 August 1941), and Hugh Henry John Percy Cary Askew (18 September 1862 â 14 April 1949).
391:(it nearly doomed Jerome at any rate, after an expensive libel action forced him to sell his interest or go to the wall). Alice ... wrote solely for her own amusement, before recalling Dr. Johnson's celebrated (to writers) dictum that 'no man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money' and joining forces with Askew in the late 1890s. Her one published effort, before they married in 1900, 'A Modern-Day Saint', appeared in
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1461:, Corfu", in which she wrote: "I am hoping to see Geoffrey & Joan, last October makes it nearly nine months since I saw the children & I am longing to have them with me for a month. I have been given a monthâs leave to go to Rome in the hope of meeting them there." "This letter is among the family artefacts now in my possession â previously in that of G.M.A." âR.C.A.
662:. On the following day her body was examined by the authorities and, from various letters and telegrams that were found about her person, identified as that of the "well-known English lady writer Alice Askew of London." She was then buried that same day 30 October 1917 at Karbuni. And a stone cross was erected there, bearing the following inscription: ALICE ASKEW /
354:, and naturally Mrs. Askew took a great deal of interest in it. About a year after they had been married it occurred to them that it would be pleasant to work together, since their tastes were so strikingly similar. They began with short stories, in which they have been as successful as they have been prolific, and contributed practically a new story every week to
383:"... Both Claude Askew and his future wife were clearly temperamentally suited not only to each other, but to the literary life itself, since both, as it were dived into it at the first opportunity. The son of a country clergyman, Claude was sent to Eton (1879-1883), and there wrote a play in blank verse. His first paid work was a short story for
457:"Up at Furnes the cold was terrible. The picturesque old town has been shelled twice, but as yet no great damage has been done, and the doctors and nurses working up at the Field Hospitalâonce a collegeâare hoping that their hospital may be spared, for this hospital, with its hundred beds and capable band of workers, is doing splendid service. ...
541:, but I think that no one who travelled upon her heard without a sigh of kindly reminiscence, some weeks later, that she had been torpedoed in the Channel and gone to the bottom. We had had an anxious time ourselves for a couple of days and nights in the early part of the voyage, for we were fair game for the enemy, and without escort."
129:(non-scholarship pupil) in Rev. Charles James' House, 'The Timbralls', Slough Road, near Windsor, then in Buckinghamshire (transferred to Berkshire in 1974). He entered in September 1879 and left in July 1883. It was probably during this period â certainly after 1877 and before 1883 â when Claude was taken on a holiday to
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Salonica and in Corfu, after a brief absence in Italy in connection with the work of the Serbian Red Cross. By a sad coincidence, this theme is introduced with a reference to the submarine peril, to which Major and Mrs. Askew fell victims within a few weeks of the dispatch of this article."
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Mansions in the borough of Marylebone; while Alice Leake was still living with her mother at No. 3 Westbourne Street, where she had been born. But Claude was also given as residing there at the time of the 1901 Census (March 31).
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Wivelsfield Green, in Sussex, known as "Botches." This they enlarged and modernised; they developed the gardens and filled the grass with bulbs. Then came the War. Mr. and
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Translation of an original document sent "To the
Imperial Royal District Authorities (Bezirkshauptmannschaft), KorÄula (Curzola), Velaluka, 6 November 1917 ... (signed) Gracin, Sergeant". "This English translation and what appears to be the original document, hand-written (in Croatian), signed and
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A PICTURESQUE WEDDING: âThere was a large and fashionable congregation on Tuesday afternoon at Christ Church, Lancaster Gate, to witness the marriage of Mr. Claude Arthur Cary Askew, second son of the late Rev. John Askew, M.A., to Miss Alice Jane de Courcey Leake, only surviving daughter of the
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edition of 15 October 1917, in their obituary for 'Major and Mrs Askew', mentioned that the authors of "The Shulamite" had spent some six months in Serbia before the retreat and wrote with sympathy and real knowledge of Serbia and the Serbian character. Claude Askew had been given the honorary
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Attached to us was a most interesting body of people, "The Munro Ambulance Corps." Dr. Munro was its chief. He is now Sir Hector Munro. With him, driving ambulances, were many well known people; just a few names I remember---Lady Dorothy Feilding, the eldest son of General Melisse, head of the
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Almost a week later they travelled from Salonika by train to Skoplje in Serbia, where their unit would stop and "mark time" and be given control of the 3rd Hospital there. And only after their "long stay" at Skopjle - due to the then prevailing cessation of hostilities, which meant that their
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666:- (roughly translated from the original Croatian: "ALICE ASKEW / English writer / delivered up from the sea 29 / and buried / by commission / 30 October 1917"). Since then the cove, where her body was found, has been marked on maps with the name: 'U. Bok' â short for
1107:, Saturday, September 5, 1891, p. 12 â Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons "The following gentlemen passed the first examination of the Board in Chemistry at the quarterly meeting of the examiners: Messrs. ... Claude A. C. Askew, of Guy's Hospital ...." >
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1141:, Friday, April 29, 1892 p. 14 â Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons "The following gentlemen passed the first examination of The Board in elementary anatomy and elementary physiology :â Messrs. ... Claude A. C. Askew ... Guyâs Hospital ...." >
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was published in 1904. It is set in South Africa, where an Englishman comes to the rescue of an unhappily married woman from âthe lashâ of her authoritarian and violent husband, a Boer farmer. Here it must be remembered that this was pretty soon after the
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84:"for her own amusement" before her marriage. But she did have one short story published under her own name alone (or rather initials), "A. J. de C. L." = 'Alice Jane de Courcy Leake': 'A Modern-Day Saint', which appeared in 1894 in
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643:) Wolfgang Steinbauer â and sank a little after 4:30 in the morning. Although there were some conflicting stories in the British newspapers, they did mostly agree that Alice and Claude Askew had both drowned in the incident.
1124:, Tuesday, March 8, 1892, p. 4 â Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons "The following gentlemen passed the first examination of the in Meteria Medica and Pharmacy :â Messrs. ... Claude A. C. Askew, Guy's ...." >
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April 1, 1915âNov. 1, 1915 by Monica M. Stanley - attached to the "Stobart Field Hospital" in Serbia. And her diary has a couple of mentions of both Alice and Claude Askew during the voyage. She goes on to tell us that the
658:" by a local fisherman. In fact her body had fetched up in a small cove on the inland side of a smaller island called Zvirinovik â just in front of the fishing village of Karbuni (as it is now spelled) â near the town of
1158:, Saturday, October 14, 1893 p. 4 â Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons "The following gentlemen passed the second examination of the board in anatomy and physiology: âMessrs. ... Claude C. Askew, Guy's ...." >
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533:: "When we, together with the unit to which we were attachedâthe First British Field Hospital for Serbiaâreached Salonika on April 15th, 1915." They also confessed to having "mixed memories" of "poor old
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399:(then edited by the fiery Manx novelist Hall Caine), Alice soon joining him in the cerebral mechanics of plotting stories, then in the actual physical labour of writing.
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911:"'Paddington: Churches', in A History of the County of Middlesex: Volume 9, Hampstead, Paddington, ed. C R Elrington (London, 1989), British History Online"
1532:(The Trade Warfare with U-boats) 1932, Mittler & Sohn Verlag; Volume IV : Februar bis Dezember 1917 (February to December 1917) 1941/1966. p.473.
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KorÄula Island Map: Map of Vela Luka, Osjak, Karbuni and Proizd
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Women Writers of the First World War: An Annotated Bibliography
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A War Nurse's Diary: Sketches from a Belgian Field Hospital
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the activities of several famous wives and their husbands.
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suffered a fatal torpedo attack from a German submarine,
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The Battles in Flanders, From Ypres to Neuve Chapelle
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888:GRO Birth certificate â registered 1 January 1866
608:, where they could embark on the Italian steamer
350:, which was then under the proprietorship of Mr.
1263:, Arthur Barker Ltd., London, 1951, pp. 119, 154
1203:'The Mansions near the Marylebone Flyover' >
959:GRO Birth certificate â registered 25 April 1876
694:issue 279 (March 1918) carried a final article,
185:, that between 1891 and 1893, Claude Askew, "of
977:GRO Birth certificate â registered 22 June 1874
612:bound for Corfu. It has been reported that the
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572:Following the 'Great Serbian Retreat' (see:
569:commission of a major in the Serbian army.
191:'Royal Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons'
1519:including the recollections of a survivor.
1066:. London: Eveleigh Nash. pp. 186â187.
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56:Alice was born on 18 June 1874 at No. 3
1600:Lena Ashwell: Actress, Patriot, Pioneer
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898:Edwardian Fiction â an Oxford Companion
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1603:. University of Hertfordshire Press.
1581:"Imperial and Foreign News Items" in
1335:, London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1916.
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1484:Ships hit during WWI - Citta Di Bari
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323:WIVES WHO WORK WITH THEIR HUSBANDS.
64:in London, England; and christened
1624:Gifford, Denis (24 October 2018).
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1674:at LC Authorities, with 8 records
1068:For access to the full book see:
730:Lucy Gort: A Study in Temperament
1384:Askew, op. cit. 1916, pp. 27-28.
1250:, 3 June 1906 'The Stage Abroad'
1160:http://archive.timesonline.co.uk
1143:http://archive.timesonline.co.uk
1126:http://archive.timesonline.co.uk
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1652:Works by Claude and Alice Askew
1556:Kameni KriĆŸevi Na Otoku KorÄuli
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327:RUDOLPH DE CORDOVA sketches in
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121:Claude Askew was educated at
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1420:Askew, op. cit. 1916, p. 74.
1411:Askew, op. cit. 1916, p. 98.
1393:Askew, op. cit. 1916, p. 35.
1375:Askew, op. cit. 1916, p. 21.
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449:... A vivid impression of
387:âs doomed twopenny weekly
1223:, Vol. 161, April 9, 1919
1597:Leask, Margaret (2012).
1587:, 23 October 1917, p. 7.
1000:Aylmer Vance: Ghost-Seer
838:, 15 October 1917, p. 11
742:Behind Shuttered Windows
680:Hello from English lady!
377:Aylmer Vance: Ghost-Seer
213:Marriage and partnership
1708:People from Wivelsfield
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950:, 11 January 1882, p. 8
876:, 19 October 1917, p. 4
650:Alice Askew's tombstone
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159:'Great Serbian Retreat'
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1316:The Wizard of the Turf
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772:Two Apaches of Paris
637:Oberleutnant zur See
66:Alice Jane de Courcy
1666:Library of Congress
766:The Sporting Chance
149:â then in exile in
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