Bernard Gutteridge
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Bernard Hugh Gutteridge [1] (1916–1985) was an English poet, novelist, and playwright. 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). His 1954 novel The Agency Game is set in the advertising world.[4][5]
Career
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. He also served in the Hampshire Regiment and Royal Sussex Regiment.[1] He reached the rank of Major, and was awarded the Legion of Merit in 1945.[6] He was a director of the brewers Arthur Guinness, Son, & Co. from 1949 to 1979.[1]
