Arthur K. (Arthur Keysall) Yapp

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Arthur K. (Arthur Keysall) Yapp

1869–1936

Best known for The Romance of the Red Triangle, this British writer and YMCA leader turned firsthand wartime service into a vivid account of how the organization supported soldiers and sailors during the First World War.

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The Romance of the Red Triangle The story of the coming of the red triangle and the service rendered by the Y.M.C.A. to the sailors and soldiers of the British Empire

The Romance of the Red Triangle The story of the coming of the red triangle and the service rendered by the Y.M.C.A. to the sailors and soldiers of the British Empire

by Arthur K. (Arthur Keysall) Yapp

About the author

Born in 1869 and dying in 1936, Arthur Keysall Yapp is remembered both as an author and as a leading figure in the YMCA. Reliable library and public-domain records identify him as the author of The Romance of the Red Triangle, a 1918 work about the YMCA’s work for the British forces during World War I.

Sources found for him consistently connect his writing with his long YMCA service. A local museum profile describes him as having grown up in Leominster and rising through YMCA leadership to become national secretary, while reference listings also describe him as a youth and welfare organizer. That background helps explain the practical, eyewitness quality of his best-known book.

For audiobook listeners, Yapp is most interesting as a writer of lived history: his work is less a detached chronicle than a record of large-scale voluntary service in wartime Britain. If you enjoy early 20th-century nonfiction, memoir-like history, or books about social and humanitarian work, his writing offers a direct window into that world.