WW1 poet. Born Rugby. Joined the navy and sailed to the Med. but died on his way to Gallipoli from an infected mosquito bite, on a French hospital ship moored in the Aegean Sea. Buried in an olive grove on Skyros where there is a memorial statue of him. This was described by Lady Diana Cooper: "It represents a huge nude man and when I say nude I don't mean maybe. It is like some ghastly advertisement in a German bugger-journal." Quoted in Philip Ziegler's biography of Diana Cooper.
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Rupert Brooke
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Royal Naval Division - WW1
Near the base of the four sides of the obelisk water jets into the basin belo...
South Suburban Gas Company war memorial
The monument, designed by Sydney March, is grade II Listed. Prior to 2012 Goo...
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Philip Larkin
Born Coventry. Larkin spent 30 years in the northern port city of Hull working as a university librarian. He shunned the limelight, refusing to appear on television and turning down a request to be...
2 memorials
John Maxwell Edmonds
Poet and classical scholar. Born Gloucestershire. Died Cambridge. In 1918-9 he published a few epitaphs for use on graves and memorials, including: When you go home, tell them of us and say, Fo...
9 memorials
Rossiter W. Raymond
Born Rossiter Worthington Raymond, an American mining engineer, legal scholar and author, amongst other skills. Best known for the last few lines of his poem 'Death is only a horizon'. However the ...
1 memorial
Milos Crnjanski
Poet, and diplomat. Born in Csongrád, Hungary. His family moved to Romania in 1896, where the Serbian heritage was instilled in him. In 1912 he went to study in Rijeka (in modern day Croatia) and V...
Person, Poetry, Politics & Administration, Austria, Balkans, Hungary, Romania, Serbia
1 memorial
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