1910s

Events in the 1910s

• 1914: The "Great War" starts, Slater Bob says it was a young Government chap who found that gold. Just before the war began .... Then t’newspaper wi’ t’ news reet across the front page, o’war begun and officer’s leave stopped .... But he never did come back (PP3).
• 1914-18: Mrs Barrable's Brother Richard was in the Navy during the War (BS24).

Native events in the 1910s

• 1910: Tabitha (later Tabitha Lewis) daughter of Arthur and Ivy born in Bournemouth (9 May)
• 1912: Bohemia in London republished (by Stephen Swift Ltd)
• 1913, April: Libel trial over his book on Oscar Wilde
• 1913, Arthur Ransome goes to Russia, arriving in Petrograd on 14 June
• 1914: Ankou published in The English Review
• 1916: Old Peter's Russian Tales published.
• 1916: The Shepherd’s Pipe written (probably), though not published until 1988
• 1917: Arthur Ransome meets Evgenia Petrovna Shelepina in Petrograd (30 December)
• 1917: Birth of John Walker (Taqui Altounyan)
• 1918: Death of Lt Geoffrey Ransome (younger brother of Arthur) in World War I
• 1918 or 1919: Birth of Susan Walker (Susan Altounyan)