{"id":195,"date":"2021-10-20T13:14:42","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T13:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/english\/?p=195"},"modified":"2021-10-20T13:16:16","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T13:16:16","slug":"ian-hay-and-the-new-generation-in-their-name-liveth-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/english\/ian-hay-and-the-new-generation-in-their-name-liveth-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian Hay and the &#8216;New Generation&#8217; in Their Name\u00a0Liveth\u00a0On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">The final chapter of Ian Hay\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Their Name\u00a0Liveth: The Book of the Scottish\u00a0National War Memorial\u00a0<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\">(London: John Lane, The Bodley Head,\u00a01931)\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">provides a striking insight to\u00a0interwar\u00a0Scottish war memory and the\u00a0War\u00a0Books\u00a0Boom. &#8220;Ian Hay&#8221; was the\u00a0<em>nom de plume<\/em> of John Hay Beith, who would become Major-General in the First World War; born in Manchester to parents of Scottish descent and schooled at Fettes College, Edinburgh, his paternal grandfather Alexander Beith was one of the founders of the Free Church of Scotland in 1843.\u00a0 While\u00a0Hay\u00a0does not\u00a0overtly\u00a0attack\u00a0disenchanted\u00a0war literature, which many perceived as\u00a0portraying\u00a0soldiers\u00a0negatively, he\u00a0subtly\u00a0asks\u00a0his readers to\u00a0recognise\u00a0that the blame should\u00a0lie\u00a0with the nature of the war\u00a0itself: \u2018the\u00a0institution and the instrument are equally condemned\u2019 (p. 154).\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Hay, an establishment figure, imagines at length what\u00a0a member of the New Generation\u00a0might think about the war, bemoaning that\u00a0they \u2018quote to\u00a0you\u00a0various passages from one of the new style War novels\u2019 (Hay, 1931, p. 151).\u00a0For\u00a0Hay,\u00a0in these novels, the soldier is\u00a0\u2018variously\u00a0depicted as a machine, a slave, or a\u00a0dupe;\u00a0frequently as a brute or a coward\u2019 (p. 154).\u00a0He sees these\u00a0\u2018new style\u00a0War\u00a0novels\u2019 as eroding the\u00a0honour\u00a0and glory of the collective memory of the war; the rosy view of conditions <\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">which formed Hay&#8217;s view of his service in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, and which he put forth in <i>The First Hundred Thousand<\/i>\u00a0(1915) and\u00a0<i>Carrying On<\/i>\u00a0(1916), \u00a0now seemed distant.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_196\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-196\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-196\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2021\/10\/Highland-machine-gunner-ready-with-his-gun-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"A kilted machine-gunner from the Highland Regiment.\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2021\/10\/Highland-machine-gunner-ready-with-his-gun-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.napier.ac.uk\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/45\/2021\/10\/Highland-machine-gunner-ready-with-his-gun.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-196\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Warwick Brooke, &#8216;Highland machine-gunner ready with his gun for any emergency&#8217;. Official war photograph thanks to National Library of Scotland. https:\/\/digital.nls.uk\/first-world-war-official-photographs\/archive\/74547316<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Hay is\u00a0also to some degree sensitive and pragmatic in his understanding of the New Generation\u2019s\u00a0lack of affection for\u00a0the\u00a0heroic warrior figure and dislike for the horrors of modern war. He writes that \u2018we can hardly blame the New Generation for not caring. In any case, it\u00a0behoves\u00a0us to be very, very tender with the New Generation, for theirs has been a barren inheritance\u2019 (p. 155).\u00a0Hay demonstrates\u00a0a consciousness of the inadequacies of the post-war world, the &#8216;fit country for heroes to live in\u2019 seeming less and less likely to\u00a0materialise,\u00a0It also highlights the perception of a gap in understanding between the war and post-war generations (although this was far from the only schism). This is a moment at which\u00a0the glorious and\u00a0honourable representation of the World War, still common in the 1920s, no longer seems tenable: society\u2019s\u00a0\u2018blind determination to make a hero out of everybody who had contributed\u2019\u00a0has turned back on\u00a0itself to reflect the country\u2019s\u00a0growing\u00a0sense of disillusionment and disenchantment (p. 153).<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:360}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Hay\u2019s overall conclusion goes against\u00a0the many contemporary newspaper articles that suggest that\u00a0the War Books Boom occurred\u00a0because\u00a0people were finally ready to discuss accurate experiences of the war. He insists that:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span data-contrast=\"none\">we\u00a0are, at present, too close to that world tragedy, the Great War, to be able to judge it\u00a0in any true perspective. [\u2026] Plainly, then, our reactions and emotions upon the subject of\u00a0recent history\u00a0are\u00a0at present too fluid to have any lasting value. We must leave Time to\u00a0crystallise\u00a0them.\u00a0(Hay, 1931, pp. 153-4)<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559739&quot;:0,&quot;335559740&quot;:240}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Hay\u00a0argues that\u00a0the books produced during the War Books Boom\u00a0still\u00a0do not have the appropriate temporal and emotional distance to be able to represent\u00a0the Great War\u00a0accurately.\u00a0He\u00a0dismisses the narratives produced during the War Books Boom, asking his readers only to remember those who lost their lives, stating \u2018that is all our dead ask of us\u2019 (p. 156).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Beth Campbell<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">(with edits by Andrew Frayn)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The final chapter of Ian Hay\u2019s\u00a0Their Name\u00a0Liveth: The Book of the Scottish\u00a0National War Memorial\u00a0(London: John Lane, The Bodley Head,\u00a01931)\u00a0provides a striking insight to\u00a0interwar\u00a0Scottish war memory and the\u00a0War\u00a0Books\u00a0Boom. &#8220;Ian Hay&#8221; 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