![]() ![]() He remained a prisoner for the rest of the war, much of the time at Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp.įollowing the war and his discharge from the Royal Air Force, de Sélincourt returned to Oxford, where he was awarded a Half Blue for athletics and took his BA in 1919. On he was shot down near Douai, while flying an FE2d, by Werner Voss, becoming the latter's 31st victory. He subsequently requested transfer to the Royal Flying Corps and returned to Britain for pilot training: he was awarded his " wings" early in 1917 and joined 25 Squadron on 11 April. He was gazetted to the 7th Battalion of the North Staffordshire Regiment on 29 August 1914, and served in Gallipoli, where he was involved in the Battle of Sari Bair in August 1915. ![]() Room in Martin de Selincourt's house, 1926įollowing the outbreak of the First World War, he abandoned his studies to join the army. Aubrey was educated at the Dragon School, Oxford, and at Rugby School, from where in 1913 he won an open classical scholarship to University College, Oxford. His uncle, Henry Fiennes Speed, was the author of Cruises in Small Yachts and Big Canoes (1883). Life De Sélincourt (seated, right) in Holzminden prisoner-of-war camp, c.1918ĭe Sélincourt was the son of the businessman Martin de Sélincourt, owner of the Swan & Edgar store in London. He had over 24 books credited to his authorship, but is chiefly remembered for his translations-all for Penguin Classics-of Herodotus' The Histories (1954), Arrian's Life of Alexander the Great (1958), Livy's The Early History of Rome (Books I to V, 1960), and The War with Hannibal (Books XXI to XXX, 1965, posthumous). British writer, academic and translator (1894–1962)Īubrey de Sélincourt (7 June 1894 – 20 December 1962) was an English writer, classical scholar, and translator. ![]()
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