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Charles Edwin Brand (20 Jan 1883, Marylebone, London, - 24 May, 1965 , Hampstead, London), was a British journalist and writer, who wrote under the pseudonym of ‘David Masters’. His parents were William John Brand (a greengrocer) and his wife Ada (née Upson), who had married in 1875. His father died in 1889 at the age of 37, whilst Charles was still only eight, and his mother raised the family of three sons and one daughter, running a newsagent with the assistance of her sister, Emma Jane Upson. Ada Brand also died young, at the age of 39, in 1895, and the children were then raised by Aunt Emma. At the time of the 1901 census, Charles Brand was working as a grocer's assistant in Putney.
He applied for a patent on what he described as combination gardening tools. Brand, a journalist then living at Hadley Barnet, Hertfordshire, had created a tool consisting of a metal plate, one side of which was formed as a rake, a second as a Dutch hoe, the third an ordinary hoe and the fourth a drill-maker or clod-chopper; the plate had a central socket so that a handle could be attached. The patent was published on 6 June 1918.
Little is known of his journalistic career, but as ‘David Masters’ he was a contributor to Wide-World Magazine, Conquest, Saturday Evening Post, Traveller's Pack and Pictorial Magazine. Under his pseudonym ‘David Masters’, he wrote at least 25 books, all of which are non-fiction, mostly related to diving and salvage but his earliest, published when he was 40, The Romance of Excavation is on an archaeological theme. One of his books noted that he was a salvage expert and hard-hat diver who worked upon the sunken German fleet at Scapa Flow. Four of his books are on medical topics.
Charles Edwin Brand was living at 10 Belsize Park, Hampstead, London NW3, when he died on 24 May 1965, aged 82.
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The Romance of Excavation. A record of the amazing discoveries in Egypt, Assyria, Troy, Crete, etc. London, John Lane, 1923.
The Wonders of Salvage. London, John Lane, 1924 [see details].
The Conquest of Disease. London, John Lane, 1925.
New Cancer Facts, with a preface by Sir James Cantlie. London, John Lane, 1925.
How to Conquer Consumption, with an introduction by Sir Bruce Bruce-Porter. London, John Lane, 1926.
Perilous Days. London, John Lane, 1927.
The Boys Book of Salvage. The Junior Literary Guild, Incorporated, New York, 1929 [see details].
The Glory of Britain. London, John Lane, 1930.
When Ships Go Down. More wonders of salvage. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1932 [see details].
S.O.S. A book of sea adventures. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1933 [see details].
On the Wing. The pioneers of the flying age. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1934.
The Submarine War. Henry Holt & Co., 1935 [see details].
"I.D." New tales of the submarine war. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1940.
Deep-Sea Diving, illus. by L. R. Brightwell. London & New York, T. Nelson & Sons, 1935 [see details].
Crimes on the High Seas. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1936 [see details].
What Men Will Do For Money. A revelation of strange cases and amazing frauds. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1937.
Divers in Deep Seas. More romances of salvage. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1938 [see details].
"So Few" The immortal record of the Royal Air Force. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1941; revised [8th ed.], Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946.
Up Periscope. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1942 [see details]. Up Periscope gathers together the stories and exploits of a number of famous submarines —Spearfish, Sealion, Salmon, Ursula, Cachalot, Tigris, Thunderbolt, Rarqual. The original reviews of the book were rather less than enthusiastic: although the subject matter was described as enthralling, Masters' accounts were described as pedestrian and disjointed. C.R., writing in The Manchester Guardian (28 Oct 1942), thought the book would have had greater value if it had contained something of the strategy of submarine warfare. "...but Mr. David Masters, the author, limits himself to the deeds of individual submarines and their commanders, about which he writes in enthusiastic cliches. The tactics of torpedo attack are touched on only incidentally, and the through-the-looking-glass life of a submarine crew is dealt with only in a short preface."
With Pennants Flying. The immortal deeds of the Royal Armoured Corps. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1943.
Miracle Drug. The inner history of penicillin. London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1946.
Epics of Salvage. Wartime feats of the marine salvage men. London, Cassell, Mar 1953 [see details].
The Plimsoll Mark. London, Cassell & Co., 1955.
In Peril of the Sea. War exploits of Allied seamen. London, Cresset Press, 1960 [see details].
The Romance of Salvage. A Record of the Amazing Discoveries in Egypt, Assyria, Troy, Crete, and elsewhere. London, John Lane The Bodley Head Ltd. Date not known [see details].