Notable English writer, journalist and soldier Hector Hugh Munro wrote sharply satirical short stories under the pen name Saki, skewering the social pretensions of Edwardian society. During the Great War he volunteered for the British Army and was killed at the Battle of the Somme in 1916. - AsNotedIn
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| 1870/12/18 | Hector Hugh Munro is born in Akyab, British Burma, now Myanmar the son of Charles Augustus Munro, an Inspector General for the Indian Imperial Police, and Mary Frances Mercer, the daughter of Rear Admiral Samuel Mercer. | Born | |||||
| 1872/00/00 | After the death of Munro's mother, Charles Munro sends his children to be raised by their grandmother and paternal maiden aunts Charlotte and Augusta at Broadgate Villa in Pilton village near Barnstaple, North Devon. | Home | Barnstaple | Devon | |||
| 1893/00/00 | Hector Munro joins the Indian Imperial Police and is posted to Burma. After successive bouts of fever, he returns to England after fifteen months. | Work | |||||
| 1896/00/00 | H H Munro moves to London and writes for newspapers including the Westminster Gazette, the Daily Express, and the Morning Post, as well as magazines such as The Bystander and Outlook. | Work | |||||
| 1909/05/29 | "Gabriel-Ernest" by H H Munro is published under his famous pen name Saki in the British evening newspaper 'The Westminster Gazette'. | Author | Gabriel-Ernest (short story) | ||||
| 1911/00/00 | Journalist Hector H Munro takes a flat at 97 Mortimer Street in Fitzrovia, London, living and working here until 1914. During his years at this address, he writes a novel, "The Unbearable Bassington". | Home | Fitzrovia | ||||
| 1911/00/00 | "Esme" is published. | Author | Esme (short story) | ||||
| 1911/00/00 | Written by between 1900 and 1911, "Sredni Vashtar" is published in The Chronicles of Clovis. | Author | Sredni Vashtar (short story) | ||||
| 1911/00/00 | "The Chronicles of Clovis" is published. | Author | The Chronicles of Clovis (short story collection) | ||||
| 1911/00/00 | Saki prescribes his "The Unrest-Cure". | Author | The Unrest-Cure (short story) | ||||
| 1911/00/00 | "Tobermory", short story by Saki, is included in the short story collection, "The Chronicles of Clovis". | Author | Tobermory (short story) | ||||
| 1911/10/14 | "The Schartz-Metterklume Method" by Saki is published in the newspaper 'The Westminster Gazette'. | Author | The Schartz-Metterklume Method (short story) | ||||
| 1911/11/18 | "The Open Window" by Saki appears in the Westminster Gazette. | Author | The Open Window (short story) | ||||
| 1912/00/00 | "The Interlopers" is published in 'The Bystander', a popular British weekly tabloid magazine and illustrated newspaper published in London from 1903 until it merged with The Tatler in 1940. | Author | The Interlopers (short story) | ||||
| 1912/03/05 | "The Blind Spot" by Saki is published in the British newspaper 'The Morning Post'. | Author | The Blind Spot (Short Story) | ||||
| 1914/00/00 | "Beasts and Super-Beasts" is published. | Author | Beasts and Super-Beasts (short story collection) | ||||
| 1914/00/00 | "The East Wing" By Saki is published published in a British periodical known as Lucas's Annual. | Author | The East Wing (short story) | ||||
| 1914/00/00 | H H Munro's short story "Dusk" is published. | Author | Dusk (Short Story) | ||||
| 1914/04/21 | "The Bull" by Saki is published in the 'Morning Post'. | Author | The Bull (short story) | ||||
| 1916/11/14 | Taking cover in a shell crater near Beaumont-Hamel, France, Hector Hugh Munro is killed by a German sniper during the Battle of the Ancre. His last words were "Put that bloody cigarette out!" | Died | Beaumont-Hamel | Hauts-de-France | Battle of the Somme | ||
| 1919/00/00 | "The Toys of Peace" by British author Hector H Munro, who wrote under the pen name Saki, is published posthumously as the title story in his final collection, The Toys of Peace and Other Papers, three years after his death in World War I. | Author | The Toys of Peace (short story) | ||||
| 1932/08/00 | Hector Hugh Munro has no known grave. He is commemorated on Pier and Face 8C 9A and 16A of the Thiepval Memorial. | In Memoriam | Memorial to the Missing of the Somme | Thiepval, Somme |
72 Creative Works by Hector H Munro »
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| Gabriel-Ernest (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1909/05/29 |
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| The Chronicles of Clovis (short story collection) | Author | Short Story Collection | 1911/00/00 | |
| A Matter of Sentiment (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| The Music on the Hill (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| Hermann the Irascible (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| The Talking-out of Tarrington (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| The Match-Maker (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| The Remoulding of Groby Lington (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| Esme (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| The Peace Offering (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| Mrs Packletide's Tiger (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| The Way to the Dairy (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| Filboid Studge (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| The Recessional (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| The Story of St Vespaluus (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| Adrian (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| The Peace of Mowsle Barton (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| Ministers of Grace (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| The Chaplet (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| The Jesting of Arlington Stringham (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| The Wratislav (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| The Background (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| The Stampeding of Lady Bastable (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| The Unrest-Cure (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| Sredni Vashtar (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 |
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| The Secret Sin of Septimus Brope (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| The Hounds of Fate (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| The Quest (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| Robert Stockton (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| The Easter Egg (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 | |
| Tobermory (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/00/00 |
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| The Schartz-Metterklume Method (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/10/14 |
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| The Open Window (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1911/11/18 |
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| The Interlopers (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1912/00/00 |
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| The Blind Spot (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1912/03/05 |
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| The Romancers (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The Brogue (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The Hen (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| Beasts and Super-Beasts (short story collection) | Author | Short Story Collection | 1914/00/00 | |
| Cousin Teresa (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The Philanthropist and the Happy Cat (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| On Approval (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The Stake (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The Dreamer (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The Yarkand Manner (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| A Holiday Task (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| Fur (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The Boar-Pig (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The Storyteller (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The Forbidden Buzzards (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| Clovis on Parental Responsibilities (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The She-Wolf (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The Cobweb (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The Lull (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The East Wing (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| A Defensive Diamond (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The Feast of Nemesis (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The Seventh Pullet (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The Unkindest Blow (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| Dusk (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 |
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| The Quince Tree (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The Elk (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| A Touch of Realism (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The Name-Day (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| Laura (Saki Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The Byzantine Omelette (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The Treasure-Ship (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The Lumber Room (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| Down Pens (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The Stalled Ox (Short Story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/00/00 | |
| The Bull (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1914/04/21 | |
| The Toys of Peace (short story) | Author | Short Story | 1919/00/00 |
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