He is primarily known for his war poems, considered "verse-journalism of a very high order" by Vernon Scannell.
[2][3] Son of Captain Bernard George Gutteridge, MRCS, LRCP, late RAMC, of Littlecroft, Southampton, and his wife Mary, daughter of William Baxter, Gutteridge was born at Southampton, and educated at Cranleigh.
He worked in advertising both before and after the war (part of the time for the J. Walter Thompson agency).
[4][5] Gutteridge served during World War II in Madagascar, India, and with the 36th Division of the British Army in Burma under Combined Operations alongside Alun Lewis.
[1] Gutteridge was also a contributor to several literary magazines,[5] and translator from Polish of Julian Tuwim's poem for children, "Lokomotywa" ("The Locomotive").