# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/r-v-c-bodley
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:14:38.503Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/r-v-c-bodley"
name: "R. V. C. Bodley"
slug: "r-v-c-bodley"
description: "Ronald Victor Courtenay Bodley, was a British Army officer, author and journalist. Born to English parents in Paris, he lived in France until he was nine, before attending Eton College and then the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was commissioned in the King's Royal Rifle Corps and served with them during the First World War. After the war he spent seven years in the Sahara desert, and then travelled through Asia. Bodley wrote several books about his travels. He was considered among the most distinguished British writers on the Sahara, as well as one of the main western sources of information on the South Seas Mandate."
tagline: "British Army officer (1892-1970)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/R._V._C._Bodley_restoration.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1892-03-03"
deathDate: "1970-05-26"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             1.568123393316195
  historical:           11.6162
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump