The Role of Birds in World War One by Nicholas Milton;

Author:Nicholas Milton;
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: HISTORY / Military / World War I
Publisher: Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC
Published: 2022-12-31T00:00:00+00:00

Teschemaker’s ordeal was, however, far from over for following publication he got into an argument with the editor of the rival British Birds magazine, the learned and very patriotic Harry Forbes Witherby (1873-1943). The two men while having a common interest in birds couldn’t have been more different: Teschemaker was a German immigrant while Witherby was a lieutenant in the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve who would later be called up and awarded the MBE (Member of the Order of the British Empire) while serving as an intelligence officer in Dunkirk. Witherby accused Teschemaker in his article on nightingales of besmirching a late ornithological friend who had died the previous year, Thomas Hudson Nelson (1856–1916), Teschemaker describing him as being an ‘incorrigible egg collector’. Witherby’s letter waspishly concluded:

if I may be allowed to say so, I think to put such an uncorroborated story into print when the man concerned is no longer here to defend himself is, to say the least, unfair. I note that the article was written to fill space, but would it not be more fitting to lessen the number of pages rather than to publish what some consider an aspersion on a friend now dead.

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