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 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.
This section lists the memorials created by the subject on this page:
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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Austin Dobson
Poet and essayist. Born Henry Austin Dobson at Plymouth, Devon. He spent his entire working life at the Board of Trade. His first poems were published in 1868. In 1876 he and a group of other poets...
T. S. Eliot
Poet and publisher. Born Saint Louis, Missouri as Thomas Stearns Eliot. His works include: The Waste Land, Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (on which Lloyd Webber based Cats), Murder in the Cath...
Sir Arthur Gorges
Sir Arthur Gorges was an English sea captain, poet, translator and courtier from Somerset. Cousin to Walter Raleigh and fought in the campaign against the Spanish Armada. Married Elizabeth in 1597,...
Person, Armed Forces, Poetry, Politics & Administration, Property, Transport
John Heath-Stubbs
Poet. Â Born Streatham Manor, Leigham Avenue (though his parents lived in Hampstead) into a wealthy family. Â Partially and progressively blind from age 18. Â Gay. Â Influenced by by classical myths. Â ...

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