872:"Experiments in the Primitive" - Among Blackwoods articles not published in 'Tales from the Outposts', this attracted critical interest. Zarif, in his book, 'Two Months Leave', says 'This was an excellent article, covering entirely new ground, in which the author showed, for the first time, probably, in the history of shikar, that there is a definite peculiar influence which man exerts over animals. There is some form of mental "telepathy" which, if a man sits waiting patiently, murder in his heart, to shoot an animal, seems to warn that animal, who probably never appears". F. W. Champion in 'The Jungle in Sunlight and Shadow' summarises - 'He (Bethell) had been watching some of these magnificent wild sheep at rather long range for hours on end waiting for a chance to shoot. At long last he decided to risk the shot, and, simultaneously with his decision, the three Ammon, which had paid no attention to him all day, jumped to their feet, fully alert, even though he had not made the slightest sound or movement'.
977:"At evening, the ancient would be nodding drowsily over the fire; by morning, his place empty; and nobody would ask where he had gone. They knew. For his last remaining strength would have carried him slowly and through days of travel to the silent tarn. And there, silent, wretched, he would creep out along the spit of land between the two arms of the black water, out to the tip of the land, and there build himself a last oblation to the unknown. One visualised the awful loneliness, with no man or woman to give him courage for the last ordeal, hold his hand, even bid him farewell, as he faced the ghouls pressing in on him. With, in all probability, his lifetime's first genuine prayer, he would lay himself down, his hands outstretched to the sacrifice that bridged his dying life to an unknown and dark eternity. And so, at length, pass over.
826:"Highbrows and Lowbrows" - a fictionalised version of the Abor expedition which Bethell was part of. Names and details are altered, but it seems probable that Dr Gregorson ("Grant" in the story) – is from life. Bethell blames his ethnographical inquiries for the incomprehension and hostility arising between explorers and tribesmen, and the consequent volatile situation. The most singular incident - of the colours on the envelopes being the cause of the massacre, and hence the resulting punitive expedition - accords with the historical accounts of the time. The conclusion of the story - which is not historical - gives Bethell's imagined view of how the Abor expedition should have been run.
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commanded it at
Mandalay Fort and Maymyo. The History of the 10th Gurkha Rifles says of him: “Bethell was a strange and in some ways eccentric character and many stories were told about him and his unorthodox disciplinary methods, but there was never any criticism of his work as Depot Commander throughout the war, and the 1st Battalion owe him a deep debt of gratitude for the five drafts sent them... he also showed unusual breadth of vision in the great care he took to safe-guard the health and happiness of the families of the men on service.”.
822:"Lost Sepoys" - told against the background of the Lakhimpur Military Police restoring order in the jungle after the Abor Expedition withdrew. Two soldiers go hunting and fail to return at nightfall. As the search parties go to sleep on the last night of their search, they hear the extraordinary, almost human wailing of a chorus of jackals. A sound they have never heard before in that part of the jungle. The remains of the two Gurkhas are found some months later, only yards from where the searchers were looking for them.
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312:, Assam, in 1908. They made a trip back to England immediately afterwards - Clytie's father had died a day before the wedding. The marriage was not always a happy one, but they remained married until Clytie's death in 1940. The couple had two children — Eileen Nancy Bethell (1909 - 1988) and Leonard Norman Bethell (1914 - 1940) — Eileen went on to marry John Birney in 1937 and have children, Norman died at
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909:'s under cover activities in what was to become Soviet Central Asia. Bailey was a master of disguise. He joined the Soviet Secret Police and was assigned to a mission to find an undercover British secret agent - who was himself! Luckily, the mission was not a success. In this story, Bailey is referred to under the pseudonym 'Barclay' as Bethell makes clear in his letter to Bailey, 8 November 1934
228:(6 December 1879 - 15 December 1950) was a distinguished soldier in India in Edwardian times, and a successful author in the 1930s. He is chiefly significant as an author, providing a direct, unheroic and unvarnished narrative of British efforts to administer the Northern jungles of Assam during the early 20th century, often providing an alternative view to the official accounts.
1034:', countering Russian influence on India's northern border. A friendship developed between the two, and later included their families as well, sharing holidays and visits together. They remained friends for years, and a long correspondence from 1915 to 1938 is held in the National Archive. (The letters from Bethell were archived by Bailey, but not his own replies to them.)
781:"A Border Affair" describes an expedition across the Assam jungles to investigate reports of Chinese activity on the Northern border. They find an isolated garrison, and a notice in Chinese - this is the limit of the Celestial Empire. The garrison is starving and demoralised - they are taken back to British headquarters, and given a passage by ship back to China.
835:"Movable Columns" - Strategy in jungle warfare, in particular the work by the Assam Military Police – of which Bethell was Assistant Commandant – to normalise relations with the tribes following the withdrawal of the Abor expedition. Bethell himself was on the Abor expedition, whose methods he criticises – thus his preference for writing under a pseudonym.
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hot water, the bath would have suffered the same fate as the teacup." (frozen instantly). "There was no shaving, and a most atrocious beard disguised everybody. A change of underwear became a risky adventure, rarely to be indulged in; and since going to bed involved only the addition of more clothing to that of the day, the matter was steadily overlooked"
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625:, and, becoming a mainstay of their commercial success at the time, was offered a post as Director. In that role, he created the 12 volume series 'Tales from the Outposts' which became another commercial success. As part of the deal, he was offered 25% of the proceeds - he stuck out for, and got, 50%. (Letter from Bethell to Bailey)
778:'A Footnote' gained gratitude from Younghusband's wife, Lady Helen Augusta Younghusband, who wrote "I shall never forget my delight in this blessed Blackwood, sent to me anonymously in 1935. We never saw the author, but I wrote to him through the publishers to tell him what this charming appreciation has meant to me. H. A. Y."
865:. The boat holds up well given its construction, but is broken as they cross their third rapids. Bethell mentions this story in his letters, and makes it clear that real events have been extended and amplified for the purpose of the story. He says that F. M. Bailey was one of the people with him – named 'Baird' in the story.
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Bethell and Bailey were on the
Younghusband Expedition together, shared a tent and shared the privations of that expedition. "In that first winter - indeed, throughout the expedition except during the two months of summer - personal cleanliness went by default. Had there been fuel enough to spare for
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Travelling back, when crucial parts of the food ration are stolen by the jungle tribes, one of the guards on the food store is suspected of complicity. Summary execution is considered, but commuted until they get back to HQ - 'Hodiya' in the story, Sadiya in fact. Half-starved and in rags they do get
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Bethell took part in the Abor expedition into the jungles of Assam, 1911–12, to avenge the murder by the Abors of the explorers Dr. Gregorson and
Assistant Political Officer Mr. N. Williamson, and most of their fifty servants and porters. Bethell based his story 'High Brows and Low Brows' (see below)
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Bethell was seconded for service with the Indian Staff Corps from 23 October 1901 and arrived in India in
November 1901. He was appointed to the Indian Army in October 1902, serving with the 16th Rajput Infantry. In November 1902 he was attached temporarily to the 13th Rajput Infantry. In 1904 he was
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He wrote of 'The Blind Road' at
Hillfield - "Looking back on it now from the thickly carpeted dullness of an ultra-modern London flat, the policeman round the corner, and the din of motors and mechanised music everywhere, one discovers that there was a definite elation in that interminable period of
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Bethell household 1881 census indicates a large and prosperous family. Bethell's father, Henry Slingsby Bethell, is described as a civil engineer. The family had eight live-in servants and 6 children - one daughter and five sons at the time of the census, Leonard being the youngest, at one year
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Recovering from his wound he returned to Burma, rejoined the
Gurkhas, and took command of the 1st/10th Gurkha Rifles Depot at Mandalay until January 1916, after which he was appointed Company Officer at the Cadet College in Quetta, Baluchistan. He returned to the 1st/10th Depot soon afterwards, and
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Bethell was posted to France in 1914. He joined the 2nd Gurkha Rifles on 12 November 1914, and was in action soon afterwards. On 11 December he went forward of the trenches and brought in two wounded men and, with help, two dead. On 20 December he was engaged in the action at La
Quinque Rue. He was
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Bethell used the adventures and travels of Bailey in several of his stories, most notably 'The Blind Road'. The correspondence between the two came to an end after publication of 'The Blind Road'. The last two letters from
Bethell both ask for comments on 'The Blind Road', but he evidently did not
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Describes a year-long expedition through unexplored and uncharted jungles of northern Assam to assess invasion routes from China, and possibly to discover what had happened to a lone
British explorer travelling incognito, and gathering intelligence, in China and Sikkim. Bethell knows him from the
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Bethell's first published work, published under his own name. The short book, or pamphlet, written as an army manual, is based on his experiences in South Africa during the Boer War. The Boer soldiers, better adapted to the landscape and country, presented a real challenge to sentries. The book's
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The stories in the collection are from remote corners of the world, especially the British Empire, and told by people living in or with experience of those places. Most were originally published in Blackwood's, which found a large part of its circulation in those colonial locations.
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His tour of command was shortened due to a heart condition: he was invalided to England in August 1924. He came on his own and his postal address then was given as 'c/o Lloyds Bank, Pall Mall'. On 14 September 1926 he was placed on the Unemployed List on completion of his command.
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Though militarily successful the treaties it led to were later revoked, and it fell into disfavour with government and the British public, who saw it as a massacre of unarmed peasants. Bethell gives a different view, based on his own experience, in 'A Footnote' (see below).
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Leonard became a good linguist in his time - he was able to speak German, French and Italian - and Hindi, Urdu and Gurkhali, these last being a requirement of his army service. He loved trekking in the Austrian Alps - where he also bought some land in the mountains.
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Bethell says in his opening paragraph that his story brings cause and effect into closer relationship than occurred in real life, and that he does not use real names - "so it is useless, after all these years, to try to identify the people who walk through these
857:"Weights and Scales" - A fishing holiday in happy mood, somewhere in the Punjab, on a river where the foothills of the Himalayas are visible in the distance. Bethell catches a huge mahseer with much-needed help from two Indian boys – the sons of his shikari.
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The books fell out of favour during the mid-twentieth century as interest in the empire declined. However some of the volumes have now been re-issued in paperback, and are available on Kindle. Amazon's 'Goodreads' website rates the series at three stars.
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and the second Battle of Laing’s Nek on 12 June 1900. He was in operations in the Transvaal, July 1900 to April 1901, and on the Zululand frontier of Natal from April to July 1900. While in South Africa he served for a time with the Mounted Infantry.
933:. As often happens in Bethell's stories, the identity of this member of the party, who is sympathetic to Hitler's views, is covered by a pseudonym - "Brodie" - the 'Bat artist'. (An older term for insanity - cf 'bats in the belfry'. or 'batty')
875:'Anyhow, whatever theories people may have about this, we do all of us owe a debt of gratitude to "Forepoint Severn" for his courage in being the first to bring to light what must, after all, have seemed at first sight to be a crazy theory.'
1004:. Now we have a man's tale which for vivid incident and descriptive power is likely to be long without a rival. On to his personal knowledge of the grim borderland north of Assam the author has grafted a thrilling and fascinating tale."
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Bethell left the army in 1927 owing to ill health, and began a successful writing career – under his own name, but also under pseudonyms 'Pousse Cailloux' and 'Forepoint Severn' – generally covering his own experiences with the Gurkhas.
773:. Bethell's regiment was responsible for keeping open the passes, and supply lines from India. When these were eventually over-stretched, the expedition risked an unsupported journey to Lhasa, raiding monasteries for food.
419:, to create a foothold on India's Northern border against the feared Russian and Chinese influences. Bethell was part of the Younghusband Expedition when he was seconded to the 4th Gurkha Rifles. During this time, he met
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846:"Eldorado Unlimited" - An economic history of India from the first opening of the sea route to Bombay onwards. A mixture of official facts and figures blended with Bethell’s own experiences and anecdotes of India.
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The story is based on Bethell's diary of the year, and includes many evocative and atmospheric diversions into the life of the jungle, the tribes, the little understood tribal rituals of birth and death.
868:"Fiat Experimentum" - After a rabies cure at the Pasteur Institute, Bethell uses the rest of his leave to stay on and look over the various experiments and researches in progress at the Institute.
362:- seceding from British control. The war was generally unsuccessful for the British, who engaged half a million troops versus the Boers 50,000 to win it. The demand for new recruits was high.
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Bailey and I turned away, pursued by the creepiness of our own imaginings, and climbed gladly to the men once more. Till camp that evening, I never heard a voice raised or a word said. "
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area. During this period, he met Frederick Marshman Bailey again, who was returning through the Khyber Pass from his undercover activities in Central Asia.
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When contributing to magazines other than Blackwoods he uses even more pseudonyms - "Mauser", "Punjabi", and "Peter Paul" - in the Sphere, and the Graphic.
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was completely destroyed in World War II bombing raids. His wife died on the same day, and his son had died at Dunkirk earlier in the same year.
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in North Yorkshire. Henry had converted to Catholicism in 1861 - he died in Rome in 1908 when Leonard was 28. After Ampleforth, Leonard went to
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as a young second Lieutenant on his 20th birthday, and went immediately to South Africa. He saw action at the relief of
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general attitude might be summarised as 'shoot first, ask questions later; bayonet if possible to avoid noise!'.
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Holdich, Bethell and Bower, T. L. H. (February 1913). "The Abor Expedition: Geographical Results: Discussion".
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that Bethell had been given access to. The title refers to a silver replica of the hand of
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for the family. By 1926 both he and his wife are on the electoral register for New Clan.
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on this expedition, and was joint contributor to an article on its geographical results.
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811:"Retaliation" - a story of revenge in the Pathan community, as narrated to Bethell.
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1936:(1 ed.). London: John Murray. pp. 73, 78, 88–89, 163, 230–232, 236, 292.
1681:(1st (photo reprint) ed.). London: G. Bell & Sons, Ltd. pp. 58, 166.
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Bailey, Frederick Marshman (February 1921). "A Visit to Bokhara in 1919".
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775:'A Footnote' is repeatedly cited in Charles Allen's 'Duel in the Snows'.
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861:"A Rapid Survey" - An adventure down an unexplored jungle river in a
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1476:(1st ed.). Glasgow and London: Collins. pp. 71, 94, 419.
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Tibet Mission. He names him 'Drummond' - in fact a pseudonym for
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2121:(1st ed.). Edinburgh and London: Blackwoods. p. 37.
953:("Drummond" is taken from Bailey's home street in Edinburgh.)
942:(as Forepoint Severn). Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, 1938.
896:(as Forepoint Severn). Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, 1936.
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884:(as Pousse Cailloux). Blackwood, Edinburgh and London, 1930.
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354:, 1899 - 1902, was fought to prevent parts of South Africa –
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British military personnel of the Third Anglo-Afghan War
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and many others. Index to 'Tales from the Outposts'.
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Outpost Duties Learnt in South Africa, L. A. Bethell
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518:Front door of New Clan, Harrow Road West, Dorking
1589:(1 ed.). Winchester: Gurkha Museum Archive.
737:William Clowes & Sons, London 1903. (43 pp)
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2277:British Army personnel of the Second Boer War
1547:Government of India, Army Department (1910).
985:back home - the death sentence is reprieved.
236:Through his father, Leonard was connected to
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2322:Officers of the Order of the British Empire
915:also includes an eyewitness account of the
1587:Bethell, Lieutenant Colonel Leonard Arthur
1088:On the night of Sunday December 29, 1940,
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1008:Friendship with Frederick Marshman Bailey
899:A collection of short stories, including
2262:20th-century British short story writers
2059:China-Tibet-Assam : a journey, 1911
733:Outpost duties as learnt in South Africa
308:Leonard married Winifred Clytie Hall in
278:, a ski resort in a mountainous area of
274:in 1889, the family took Villa Bader in
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255:in 1879, but the family address was 16
2061:(1st ed.). London: Jonathan Cape.
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448:was also a member of this expedition.
2327:People educated at Ampleforth College
2144:"Letters from Leonard Arthur Bethell"
1776:"Letters from Leonard Arthur Bethell"
242:Richard Bethell, first Baron Westbury
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1422:MĂĽnchner Merkur (9 September 2006).
2057:Bailey, Frederick Marshman (1945).
2032:Bailey, Frederick Marshman (2002).
1983:Zarif (1933). "Two Month's Leave".
1636:. Families In British India Society
1963:British Library / National Archive
1877:"Index to Tales from the Outposts"
1780:British Library / National Archive
373:, and took part in the battles of
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2000:The Jungle in Sunlight and Shadow
1837:(33202): 6036. 17 September 1926.
1118:Aliases of people and place names
303:Royal Military College, Sandhurst
102:Royal Military College, Sandhurst
2307:British people in colonial India
2292:British male short story writers
1907:"Tales from the Outposts review"
1603:Bethell, Leonard Arthur (1932).
1474:Elgar O.M. A Study of a musician
617:Tales from the Outposts, 12 vols
570:India General Service Medal 1909
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1050:New Clan Sale particulars, 1936
551:military awards and decorations
549:Bethell received the following
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270:When Henry lost a lung due to
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2232:The Gurkha Museum, Winchester
2090:Whitton, F. E. (1939-07-23).
1959:"Younghusband private papers"
1850:"Electoral register, Dorking"
1585:Wood, Denis (February 2023).
1249:"Original MS Marriage record"
1112:St Swithun's Church, Clunbury
1070:starvation and uncertainty,"
792:affair, based on archives of
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