Douglas Jerrold

Jerrold appears to have been a director of Eyre & Spottiswoode. Allegedly he was one of the group of people who chartered the plane which flew Franco from the Canary Islands to Morocco in 1936, thus precipitating the Spanish Civil War. In the Thirties he was also the Editor of the right wing Catholic journal, The English Review. At the time of writing this, nothing is known about his war service, if any. Further research, partly based on the Regimental History of the Hawke Battalion coming into the Collection, suggests that the Douglas Jerrold who was an officer in that Battalion, and who wrote the Battalion history, and the Douglas Jerrold who is described above, were one and the same person. Jerrold had one of his arms was badly shattered during the war. His history of the Hawke Battalion very rarely mentions any part he may have played in what the battalion did during the war.