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The Poet of Ruhleben
'In Captivity' - poems from internment
This is the story of my great uncle, Cecil Duncan-Jones. He was born in 1883 and was originally from London. Unlike his elder brother, he did not attend university but pursued a life as an actor, poet and novelist. He was tall, dark and handsome and although he struggled a little for money, he loved acting and had played the Duke of Orleans in Henry V.
In 1914 he was in Alsace Lorraine recove…
Contributors
- Katherine Duncan-Jones
Subject
- World War I
- Prisoners of War
- Cecil Duncan-Jones
- World War I
Type of item
- Story
Date
- 1914-08
- 1918-11-10
- 1918-11-10
- 1914-08
- 1918-11-10
- 1914-08
Contributors
- Katherine Duncan-Jones
Subject
- World War I
- Prisoners of War
- Cecil Duncan-Jones
- World War I
Type of item
- Story
Date
- 1914-08
- 1918-11-10
- 1918-11-10
- 1914-08
- 1918-11-10
- 1914-08
Providing institution
Aggregator
Rights statement for the media in this item (unless otherwise specified)
- http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/
Creation date
- 2015-01-27 17:12:37 UTC
- 2015-01-27
- 2015-01-27
Temporal
- europeana19141918:timespan/ef883207e1e1ba32a2b7fcf7b6f868d6
Places
- Germany and Holland
Provenance
- SOM01
Source
- UGC
Identifier
- 19459
- https://1914-1918.europeana.eu/contributions/19459
Language
- English
- eng
Is part of
- EnrichEuropeana
Providing country
- Europe
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2019-09-11T08:44:58.268Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2023-06-05T08:05:33.085Z