Grieves, K. (1996). Neville Lytton, the Balcombe frescoes and the experience of war, 1908-1923. Sussex Archaeological Collections 134. Vol 134, Sussex Archaeological Society. pp. 197-211. https://doi.org/10.5284/1086622. Cite this via datacite

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Title:		 Neville Lytton, the Balcombe frescoes and the experience of war, 1908-1923
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Issue:		 Sussex Archaeological Collections 134
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Abstract:		 The Hon. Neville Lytton of Crabbet Park and the Royal Sussex Regiment left much evidence of a reflective approach to the impact of the First World War on his life as a squire. In 1914 his leisured lifestyle was overtaken by the age old function of the landed gentleman in war which was to go to the Front at the head of his tenantry. In 1916 substantial portions of the Crabbet estate were sold and in Worth the association of locality and controlling landowner abruptly diminished while he served in a front-line unit during the Somme offensive. In France, Lytton grew to appreciate the essential role and virtues of the 'common man' and to understand that his advance would bring an end to squires and their 'kingdoms '. After the war he revealed himself as an acute observer of the impact of war on the 'South Country' landed elite. Lytton also contributed to the memorial hall movement by undertaking War and Peace frescoes at the Victory Hall, Balcombe in 1923. He visualized a village community which was not dependent on the country house and celebrated the natural beauty of the Sussex landscape. As an artist-memorialist of the Great War, who had served in a locally-raised battalion, Lytton provided as much insight as Edmund Blunden into the effect of total war on the pastorally-minded.
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Author:		 Keith Grieves
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Publisher:		 Sussex Archaeological Society
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Year of Publication:		 1996
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