The text of the entry was: Did you know ... that a brief conversation with
Lawrence of Arabia prompted R. V. C. Bodley to live with a nomadic tribe in the
Sahara desert for seven years?
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I don't think much point in looking at the Time Magazine letter book (your link). I actually went on the the Time Mag site and you can read the letter itself. It's an amusing letter describing exactly how British schoolboys were beaten (not with a literal cane). Interesting and kind of funny really, the guy had a sort of Tom Wolfe or Steinbeck style of describing things, but not really anything to make it into the encyclopedia. —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
72.82.33.69 (
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08:25, 16 July 2010 (UTC)reply
Use RVC or R.V.C. He was not known as Ronald. Seriously, do a search on his books or google. RVC is how he is known. Like TE Lawrence. Not Theodore.
I don't think we regard google hits as a reputable measure of anything much, since no one else does these days. Ronald will do fine until there is some evidence the other way. By the way, a possible reference is where it says
here that Bodley was helped by Anne Fremantle in his Sahara travels.
Charles Matthews (
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09:51, 16 July 2010 (UTC)reply
In my search for information on this man I found this, apparently there is a portrait of
Thomas Gage in the "Colonol R.V.C. Bodley collection in Boston".
[6] I can't find any further mention of this 'collection' anywhere.
Freikorp (
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03:16, 20 July 2010 (UTC)reply
Could this be a DYK? Honest, I feel like Freikorp and CM and others did some nice work here. (Of course, I really don't know what a DYK is either.) —Preceding
unsigned comment added by
71.127.134.132 (
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21:32, 2 September 2010 (UTC)reply
Also, London Gazette is referenced as having a good 1919 article on the man. I guess, you could dig up more looking in old newspaper archives (some maybe not on the web or Googleable). Also, he has been dead only 40 years or so, so one would imagine there's surviving family and the like who knew the man. That said, not the most important thing in the world to research this fellow.
R. V. C. Bodley (1892–1970) was a British Army officer, author and journalist. After studying at
Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, in 1911 Bodley was commissioned into the
King's Royal Rifle Corps and subsequently served with them during the
First World War. After witnessing the
1919 Paris Peace Conference, he grew disillusioned with the military and went to live in the
Sahara as a nomad for seven years. During the 1930s he was one of few Westerners allowed access to Japan's
South Pacific Mandates. These experiences formed the basis of several books, including Algeria from Within (1927) and Wind in the Sahara (1944).Photograph: Unknown; restoration:
Adam Cuerden
Hi
Crisco 1492. Your POTD notice motivated me to considerable improve this article, which had been on my to-do list for some time. I got the article to GA status, and it is currently featured at DYK. I'll probably make some adjustments to the POTD blurb with the new information I added to the article in the next day or so, unless you wanted to do that yourself. Cheers.
Freikorp (
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07:59, 11 February 2015 (UTC)reply
On second thought i'm going to leave it as is. Sure there is the interesting information of him being a screenwriter for Charlie Chaplin and woking for the Office of War, but I can't add that without cutting something else important, and it's already very well written. Looking forward to seeing this on the main page [again] tomorrow! :)
Freikorp (
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12:51, 18 February 2015 (UTC)reply