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These WW1 diaries provide a vivid contrast between the ugliness of war and the beauty of birds.
Collingwood Ingram (1880-1981) is chiefly remembered today as a great gardener. His name is synonymous with the flowering Japanese cherries and he is still widely known as Cherry Ingram. Much less well-known is his early life as an ornithologist, yet he was described by the Curator of Birds at the Natural History Museum as ‘The best I ever knew’. In WW1 he went to France as a Compass Officer in the Royal Flying Corps. His diaries describe his life in the Flying Corps and also cover the Germans’ secret retreat to the Hindenburg line in early 1917, the fierce spring battles of 1918 when the War seemed all but lost, the final advance to victory and the joy of the liberated people. In these desperate times, Collingwood Ingram never lost his passion for birds and the diaries are full of his exquisite pencil sketches of birds, landscapes and people.
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