William gerhardie biography

          William Alexander Gerhardie was born in St Petersburg, Russia, in As a young man he went to London and, when the First World War broke out, joined the.

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        4. William Alexander Gerhardie OBE FRSL was an Anglo-Russian novelist and playwright.

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          William Gerhardie

          English novelist and playwright

          William Alexander GerhardieOBEFRSL (21 November 1895 – 15 July 1977)[1] was an Anglo-Russian novelist and playwright.

          His first novel, Futility (1922), drew on his experiences of fighting the Bolsheviks in pre-revolutionary Russia.

          Life and career

          Gerhardie (or Gerhardi – he added the "e" in later years) was born at St Petersburg, Russia, the fifth of six children of Charles Alfred Gerhardi (1864–1925), a British expatriate industrialist, and his wife Clara Annie (1869–1948), daughter of John Wadsworth.

          He was educated at the Sankt Annenschule and Deutsche Reformierte Kirchenschule in St Petersburg, before completing his education in England at Worcester College, Oxford.[2]

          In 1915, during the First World War he enlisted in the Royal Scots Greys and trained in England while applying for a commission as an officer.

          After commissioning in 1916 he was posted to the staff of the British Military Atta