Mrs Ian Hay Beith
Mrs Ian Hay Beith, wife of Major General John Hay Beith, CBE (1876 - 1952), British schoolmaster and soldier, but he is best remembered as a novelist, playwright, essayist and historian who wrote under the pen name Ian Hay. During the First World War, Beith served as an officer in the army in France. His good-humoured account of army life, The First Hundred Thousand, published in 1915, was a best-seller
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13991559
Media ID
45429926
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3600px x 5311px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Marceau in The Tatler, 26 December, 1917
Date
1917
