Impression of a
Defence of the Realm Act poster - by Jamie. See original at:
http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/object/41682
With the Defence
of the Realm Act,
Giving a range of
powers to government
Of Britain -
allowed actions for war efforts
To be undertaken
- along with prevention
Of persons
communicating with enemy.
Activities that
had been common place
In peace were not allowed - to include
Giving bread to
wild animals, lighting
Of bonfires, kite
flying, buying binoculars
And open
discussion of military facts.
Under such rules came a case of a curate's
Wife - Louise
Herbert aged 55 in 1915.
Mrs Herbert, born
in India of a German
Father - with
missionary relatives and given
Two educations;
in German and English.
Born in Kent Edward
Hebert had trained
As a missionary, moved to India to marry -
After his wife
later died Edward remarried
Louise Daenble - they returned to England
By 1911 - to take
lodgings in Islington.
With Edward, taking
position as curate
At St Luke's church, the couple moved
To Darlington - when six months into war,
Louise Herbert
came under observation
Of police, over an
eight month period.
In use of Defence
of the Realm Act,
Section 18 - the
accused, well known
And living in
Hopetown, was sentenced;
In attempts to
obtain information which
Would be of value
to the enemy military.
In a strange
quest, for a wife of Curate,
Louise Herbert
had been reported
In researching for
detailed information,
On the type of
shells and gun carriages,
Being then
manufactured in Darlington.
by Jamie Mann.
Anon.,1915. Curate's
Wife Sentenced. The Daily Telegraph, [online] 17 September. P.3. Col.4.
Available at:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ww1-archive/11869468/Daily-Telegraph-September-17-1915.html
[Accessed: 17 September 2015].
Source: File: Suspected
German spy in Darlington [online] Available at: <http://www.durhamatwar.org.uk/story/11503/>
[Accessed: 17 September 2015]
Mann, J., 2015. 100 years Ago - Poems by Jamie Mann. [letter] (Personal
communication, 17 September 2015).
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