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Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey
Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey
This community aims to gather the 16 Great War poets memorialized in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey. More about the memorial, including detail on its 1985 unveiling by Ted Hughes, can be found here: http://www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/poets-of-the-first-world-war.
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Born 1890
Died 1918
British Army 22311 Private Royal Lancaster Regiment
British Army 22311 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
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Born 1892
Died 1962
British Army 36179 Private Leicestershire Regiment 11th Battalion
More about Richard Aka Edward Godfree Aldington -
Born 1887
Died 1915
Royal Navy Sub Lieutenant Royal Naval Division Hood Battalion
More about Rupert Chawner Brooke -
Born 1895
Died 1985
British Army Second Lieutenant Welsh Regiment 2nd Battalion
British Army Lieutenant Royal Welsh Fusiliers
British Army Captain Royal Welsh Fusiliers
More about Robert Ranke Graves -
Born 1895
Died 1915
British Army Lieutenant Suffolk Regiment
British Army Captain Suffolk Regiment 7th Battalion
More about Charles Hamilton Sorley -
Born 1886
Died 1967
British Army Captain Royal Welsh Fusiliers
More about Siegfried Loraine Sassoon -
Born 1895
Died 1974
British Army 22579 Private Royal Welsh Fusiliers
More about Walter David Michael Jones -
Born 1893
Died 1944
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery
More about Robert Malise Bowyer Nichols -
Born 1888
Died 1915
British Army Captain Royal Dragoon Guards 1st Battalion
More about The Honourable Julian Henry Francis Grenfell -
Born 1878
Died 1917
British Army 4229 Corporal London Regiment
British Army Royal Garrison Artillery
British Army Second Lieutenant Royal Garrison Artillery
More about Philip Edward Thomas -
Born 1893
Died 1968
British Army Second Lieutenant Yorkshire Regiment
British Army Captain Yorkshire Regiment 7th Battalion,Green Howard's.
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Born 1896
Died 1974
British Army Temporary Second Lieutenant Royal Sussex Regiment 11th Battalion
British Army Temporary Second Lieutenant Royal Sussex Regiment
British Army Temporary Lieutenant Royal Sussex Regiment 11th Battalion
More about Edmund Charles Blunden -
Born 1869
Died 1943
British Army Young Men's Christian Association
British Army Orderly French Red Cross
More about Robert Laurence Binyon -
Born 1890
Died 1937
British Army 241281 Private Gloucestershire Regiment
More about Ivor Bertie Gurney -
Born 1893
Died 1918
British Army Artist's Rifles
British Army Lieutenant Manchester Regiment 5th Battalion
More about Wilfred Edward Salter Owen