Arthur Wheen World War I hero
Subtitle: the other side of no man's land
By: John Ramsland
Publisher: Brolga Publishing
Published: 2015
Place of publication: A'Beckett Street Melbourne, Vic
Language: eng
Number of pages: 460
ISBN-13: 9781922175694
Subjects: World War, 1914-1918; Communications; Australian Participation; Soldiers; Biography; Military Communications; Military participation; Australian; World War (1914-1918) fast (uri) http://id.worldcat.org/fast/fst01180746
Description: Arthur Wheen was the most daring, resourceful signaller in the 1st AIF. His extraordinary exploits in the epic Battles of Fromelles, Polygon Wood, Villers-Bretonneux and Peronne are told as well as his subsequent career as a Rhodes Scholar. In 1929 he became the first and best translator of Remarque's classical German war novel All Quiet on the Western Front that became an international bestseller and a Hollywood film in 1930. On the other side of No Man's Land Wheen's experience paralleled incidents in the book. In the midst of the horrors of Fromelles, Wheen showed conspicuous bravery in laying and repairing telephone lines under extremely heavy fire across No Man's Land where there was indescribable loss of life. At night he volunteered to search for the wounded and showed fine courageous spirit in rescuing many under intense machine-gun and rifle fire. He wrote: 'The Morning Star is quenched with blood'.