The attached article was published during the closing months of World War One; penned by an Old Etonian, it is a beautifully written account of the strange atmosphere felt on the Eton College campus as a result of the Great War with all it’s sadness and uncertainty.


In the 1914 image above Prince Edward, Prince of Wales, is seen inspecting the cadets at Eton College.


Click here if you would like to read a magazine article about World War I as it was experienced on the Harrow campus.




Read The Spirit of the War at Eton<br>(Cornhill Magazine, 1918) for Free

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