![]() Subsequently he found work as theatre reviewer with the Daily News, and also contributed to the Spectator, the Challenge and Nineteenth Century. When Priestley left the army he studied at Cambridge University, where he completed a degree in Modern History and Political Science. ![]() After being wounded in 1917 Priestley returned to England for six months then, after going back to the Western Front he suffered the consequences of a German gas attack, and, treated at Rouen, he was declared unfit for active service and was transferred to the Entertainers Section of the British Army. Following the outbreak of the Great War in 1914, Priestley joined the British Army, and was sent to France -in 1915 taking part in the Battle of Loos. John Boynton Priestley, the son of a schoolmaster, was born in Bradford in September 1894, and after schooling he worked for a time in the local wool trade. ![]()
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