William Gillon is the next artist to be featured in the series of contributors to Arnold's sketchbook. William's records have him coming from Glasgow, Govan to be precise. Born in 1892 he was a similar age to Arnold and, of course, held the same position on the boat. Arnold refers to him as a "3rd watch Tiffey" Once interned, the two men were housed in the same hut, number 5, and had consecutive prisoner numbers, William 42 and Arnold 43. They would have known each other quite well, one...

In my last blog post I introduced you to Robert Thomas Lawrence, baker on HMS India and showed the art he had contributed to Arnold's sketchbook. Today I would like for you to meet Charles Thomas Anderson, plumber. Throughout all of my research into the men of HMS India, it is those who do not have soldier numbers who have been the hardest to research (as well as those with commonly used names) so I was pleasantly surprised to find quite a bit of information on Charles Anderson. Born in...

I recently wrote about getting access to scans from a sketchbook of Arnold's from internment in Norway during the First World War. One of the lovely things about this sketchbook is that it not only contains some lovely sketches by Arnold but also some by some of the other internees. Over the next few weeks I will featuring blog posts on these other men including the art work as well as photographs and what ever other information I can unearth about these men The first man I would like to...