Verrall

The following photos were kindly provided by Pauline Van Kampen, daughter of Len Verrall.

Work Camp 10294 L 2010

Pauline van Kampen, daughter of Pte Len Verrall, 2NZEF,

Work Camp 10030 GW, Lavamund 2010

Verrall leant forward on the table, elbows upon it, and the fingers of his two hands intertwined.

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

Again I sit there, eating awkwardly, this paper lies upon the table and Verrall talks of the

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

Verrall laughed approval of the image I had struck out.

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

“No,” she said, demolished her last pattern and looked up at Verrall as he stirred.

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

Nettie — Nettie who had smiled and promised and given herself to another, and who stood now for all the conceivable delightfulnesses, the lost imaginations of the youthful heart, the unattainable joys in life; and Verrall who stood for all who profited by the incurable injustice of our social order.

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

And that I should have it in me to go on loving Nettie — who loved in different manner both Verrall and me — would have outraged the very quintessence of the old convention.

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

“We come back at last to my question,” said Verrall, softly; “what are we to do?”

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006

Shaphambury in vain, I was greatly tormented, as that unparalleled glory of the night returned, to think that under its splendid benediction young Verrall and Nettie made love to one another.

In the Days of the Comet Herbert George 2006