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The Mouthless Dead
The Mouthless Dead
This community gathers the life stories of poets who served and died in WW1. It takes its name from a poem by Charles Hamilton Sorley: When you see millions of the mouthless dead Across your dreams in pale battalions go, Say not soft things as other men have said, That you’ll remember. For you need not so. Give them not praise. For, deaf, how should they know It is not curses heaped on each gashed head? Nor tears. Their blind eyes see not your tears flow. Nor honour. It is easy to be dead. Say only this, “They are dead.” Then add thereto, “Yet many a better one has died before.” Then, scanning all the o’ercrowded mass, should you Perceive one face that you loved heretofore, It is a spook. None wears the face you knew. Great death has made all his for evermore. https://archive.org/details/marlboroughother00sorluoft/page/78
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Born 1895
Died 1915
British Army Lieutenant Suffolk Regiment
British Army Captain Suffolk Regiment 7th Battalion
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Born 1888
Died 1915
British Army Captain Royal Dragoon Guards 1st Battalion
More about The Honourable Julian Henry Francis Grenfell -
Born 1890
Died 1918
British Army 22311 Private Royal Lancaster Regiment
British Army 22311 Private King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
More about Isaac Rosenberg -
Born 1887
Died 1915
Royal Navy Sub Lieutenant Royal Naval Division Hood Battalion
More about Rupert Chawner Brooke -
Born 1888
Died 1917
Royal Navy Lieutenant Commander Royal Naval Division Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
More about Patrick Houston Shaw-Stewart -
Born 1887
Died 1917
British Army 16138 Private Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
British Army 16138 Lance Corporal Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers 1st Battalion
More about Francis Edward Ledwidge -
Born 1895
Died 1915
British Army Second Lieutenant Norfolk Regiment 4 Battalion
British Army Lieutenant Norfolk Regiment 4 Battalion
British Army Lieutenant Worcestershire Regiment 7 Battalion
More about Roland Aubrey Leighton -
Born 1893
Died 1916
British Army Second Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment
British Army Temporary Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment
British Army Lieutenant Devonshire Regiment 9th Battalion
More about William Noel Hodgson -
Born 1883
Died 1917
Royal Navy Temporary Lieutenant
More about Thomas Ernest Hulme -
Born 1893
Died 1918
British Army Artist's Rifles
British Army Lieutenant Manchester Regiment 5th Battalion
More about Wilfred Edward Salter Owen -
Born 1872
Died 1918
Canadian Expeditionary Force Major Canadian Army Medical Corps 1st Brigade Canadian Field Artillery
Canadian Expeditionary Force Lieutenant Colonel Canadian Army Medical Corps No 3 McGill General Hospital, Boulogne, France
More about John Mccrae -
Born 1891
Died 1917
British Army PS/1511 Private Middlesex Regiment 16th Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry 6th Battalion
British Army PS/1511 Lance Corporal Middlesex Regiment 16th Battalion
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More about Arthur Graeme West -
Born 1890
Died 1917
Canadian Expeditionary Force 82066 32nd Reserve Battalion
British Army Second Lieutenant Leicestershire Regiment
More about Bernard Freeman Trotter -
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 1875
Died 1917
British Army Second Lieutenant Rifle Brigade
More about Robert Ernest Vernede