Gerald Warre Cornish was a lecturer in Greek when World War I broke out and he joined the army. When he was killed in action on September 16, 1916, a small copybook containing this translation was found on his body. It was first published in 1937 and reprinted several times after that into the late 1940s.
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Title: St. Paul From The Trenches A rendering of the Epistles to the Corinthians and Ephesians done in France during the Great War by Gerald Warre Cornish With a Foreword by John Sidney Braithwaite, M.A.
Date: First Edition Octgober 1937
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston
Contents: I and II Corinthians, Ephesians
References: Chamberlin 720-6; Herbert see 2267, Taliaferro CN00165, Taliaferro-EELBV NBP-0270.
Images: Cover, Title page
Apple iBooks edition
Title: St. Paul From The Trenches Gerald Warre Cornish 1916
Date: 2014 (The First Edition was published in October 1937)
Publisher: Bible Society: Swindon
Contents: I and II Corinthians, Ephesians
References: Chamberlin 720-6; Herbert see 2267, Taliaferro CN00165, Taliaferro-EELBV NBP-0270.
Images: Cover, Title page
Comments: This edition was digitized, typeset, and released by the Bible Society as a part of commemorations to honor World War I in 2014; it is available for Apple's iBooks application for the Macintosh, iPad, iPhone, and iPod. Bible Society executive James Catford penned an introduction for this edition.
