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Thomas Hope Floyd

1896–1973

A young British officer turned his First World War service into a vivid memoir, then spent later decades as a noted book collector and genealogist. His best-known work, At Ypres with Best-Dunkley, blends frontline observation with a close portrait of Colonel Bertram Best-Dunkley.

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At Ypres with Best-Dunkley

At Ypres with Best-Dunkley

by Thomas Hope Floyd

About the author

Born in 1896 and dying in 1973, Thomas Hope Floyd is chiefly remembered for At Ypres with Best-Dunkley, an account connected with the Lancashire Fusiliers and the fighting around Ypres in the First World War.

Archival records describe him not only as an author but also as a bibliophile, book collector, and genealogist. His papers and correspondence were preserved after his death, and the Hope Floyd Bequest is noted in connection with Lancashire Archives.

Reliable biographical detail about his personal life appears to be limited in the sources I could confirm, so it is safest to present him as a soldier-writer whose wartime experience and later literary and archival interests shaped the legacy he left behind.