author
Bernard C. Stubbs
d. 1915
A young soldier’s brief World War I diary gives his only known book an immediate, personal weight. Published after his death in 1915, it preserves the voice of a London office worker who became a rifleman and wrote plainly about service in France.
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About the author
Bernard C. Stubbs is identified in library and ebook records as Bernard Castle Stubbs (c. 1891–1915), the author of Diary Kept by Rifleman B. C. Stubbs of the Second Draft Sent to the Queen Victoria Rifles in France.
The surviving information suggests he worked for the Union-Castle Line in London before joining the Queen Victoria Rifles during the First World War. His diary was published posthumously in 1916, and modern editions and archive records present it as a firsthand account of his wartime experience.
Because very little biographical detail appears to be widely documented, Stubbs is remembered mainly through this short diary and the record of his death in 1915 rather than through a larger literary career.