British WW1 poet Everard Lindsay Brine, born in London, UK on 1st December 1890, died on 24th September 1918 of an illness contracted while serving as a Lieutenant with the 4th Battalion of the Hampshire Regiment in Persia (now called Iran). He had previously served in Mesopotamia.
Everard’s poetry collection, entitled “Poems”, was published in 1920 by Blackwell, Oxford.
Here is an extract of one of those poems:
“New College Gardens : Spring,”
Over me the sky washed blue with April,
Brown trees green and silver in the spring light;
Under me the grass white-flecked and odorous,
All about me glimpses of blue hyacinths.
Sources: Catherine W. Reilly “English Poetry of the First World War: A Bibliography” (St. Martin’s Press, New York, 1978), p. 67 and https://www.chch.ox.ac.uk/fallen-alumni/lieutenant-everard-lindesay-brine
