Ronald Tudor Symond MC was born in Liverpool, England in December 1895, the second son of a solicitor Elwy Davies Symond, and died at the age of 51 of a heart attack in London in February 1947.
12 Facts About Ronald Symond
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Ronald Symond is notable for his membership of the avant-garde, modernist, literary and artistic circles of the Left Bank of Paris in the 1930s.
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At the age of 19, in 1915, Symond enlisted and served in the Infantry for three years in Northern France, on the Western Front, during World War I He attained the rank of Lieutenant in the 6th Battalion of the Liverpool Regiment, and was awarded the Military Cross in April 1918.
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Ronald Symond was then transferred to the Royal Flying Corps, which became the Royal Air Force in August 1918, and undertook training in England, returning to France as the war was ending.
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Ronald Symond was transferred to the Intelligence Corps on 15 July 1940 and attained the rank of Captain.
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Ronald Symond resided in both France and England between 1919 and 1939, becoming bilingual, and was a minor figure among the expatriate writers living in Paris in that period.
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Ronald Symond was therefore a member of the Lost Generation.
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Ronald Symond wrote a literary critique on Work in Progress by James Joyce, while it was being published in transition, and before it was published in its final form as Finnegans Wake.
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Ronald Symond was a signatory, together with Eugene Jolas, to a manifesto of expatriate writers living in Paris in the 1930s, entitled Poetry is Vertical.
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Ronald Symond wrote two books of non-fiction, during the inter-war years:.
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Ronald Symond reported at least one cricket Test match in which the Australian Don Bradman played, meeting Bradman in 1938, when he came to the Press Box.
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Ronald Symond died of a heart attack at the age of 51.