![]() ![]() After being seriously injured he was sent home to recover, but when he was well enough he was sent back to the front line in 1917 and survived being gassed by poison gas. Here he experienced the full hell of war, and saw many of his comrades killed. In 1915, just one year later, he was sent to the front line. ![]() However, he set all of this aside and voluntarily joined the army to fight for his country. By this time he had already discovered his love for literature and was a promising young writer with a column in his local newspaper and a number of published political articles under his belt. The First World War broke out in 1914, when Priestley was just 20 years old. ![]() John Boynton Priestley was born as ‘John Priestley’ in 1894, choosing later to add ‘Boynton’ to his name. ![]()
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