6/9/2023 0 Comments Beau Geste by P.C. Wren![]() ![]() He resigned from the Indian Education Service in November 1917. While in India, he joined the Poona Volunteer Rifles with the rank of Captain, before his service was terminated in October 1915 after sick leave. In 1903 he joined the Indian Education Service as headmaster of Karachi High School (now Pakistan). Catherine's College, Oxford, a non-collegiate college for poorer students, Percy worked as a boarding school teacher for a few years, during which he married Alice Shovelier, and had a daughter (Estelle, born 1901). After graduation with a Master of Arts degree from St. He is remembered best for Beau Geste, a much-filmed book of 1924 involving the French Foreign Legion in North Africa, and its sequels, Beau Sabreur and Beau Ideal.īorn as plain Percy Wren, in Deptford, South London, England, Percy was the son of a schoolmaster. ![]() ![]() Percival Christopher Wren (1 November 1875 – 22 November 1941) was a British writer, mostly of adventure fiction. ![]()
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