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Posts tagged with 'first world war'

• • ISAAC ROSENBERG
  • by kendrive
    

  • in poemsandprose.blog.co.uk

  • 52 days old
  • Over the next few weeks I shall be posting war poems by Isaac Rosenberg. It is possible that you have not heard of him and are unfamiliar with his work. He was certainly unknown to me until fairly recently. The following brief note is taken from the preface of "The Selected Poems of Isaac Rosenberg" (Edited by Jean Moorcroft Wilson - published... more
  • Tags: + life , + poem , + poetry , + rosenberg , + trenches
• • IT WAS NOT TO BE
  • by kendrive
    

  • in poemsandprose.blog.co.uk

  • 59 days old
  • Alec de Candole was born on January 26 1897 in Cheltenham, the son of a clergyman. He was educated at Marlborough College, which he left in April 1916 to enlist in the army. He was commissioned in the 4th Wiltshire Regiment and on April 1917 he was sent to Flanders. He was wounded in October of that year and, during his recovery at home, he... more
  • Tags: + arras , + death , + life , + mendips , + poem , + poetry