Ernest Raymond

Ernest Raymond OBE (31 December 1888 – 14 May 1974) was a British novelist, best known for his first novel, Tell England (1922), set in World War I.

Raymond was a highly prolific writer, with an output of forty-six novels, two plays and ten non-fiction works.

[3] Attending the same September graduation ceremony was the future conductor Malcolm Sargent, there to receive his Music degree.

[4] With the outbreak of the First World War, Raymond immediately applied to the chaplain-general for service overseas with the army.

[7] George Orwell in 1945 praised Raymond as a "natural novelist" who could portray convincingly the lives of ordinary people.