Into Battle (play)
''Into Battle'' is a stage play written by Hugh Salmon, which received its premiere at the Greenwich Theatre in London in October 2021. The play tells the story of a bitter feud between the privileged Old Etonians at Balliol College, Oxford and a more socially aware group of non-Etonians during the run-up to the First World War. ''Into Battle'' features a number of historical characters including the wealthy socialite Ettie Grenfell, Baroness Desborough; her two sons Julian Grenfell (after whose poem the play is named) and Billy Grenfell; Patrick Shaw-Stewart, another war poet; Ronald Poulton, the distinguished rugby player; and the respected theologian Reverend Neville Talbot. Plot Of the fifty-six freshers in the 1906 intake to Balliol College, Oxford, eighteen had been to Eton College. A ‘bitter feud’ developed between these Old Etonians and the rest of the college. In his 1959 biography of one of these Etonians, the theologian Ronald Knox, the acclaimed novelist Evelyn ...
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