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Sunday, 10 August 2025

Edward Owen Rutter (1889 –1944) - Historian, poet, novelist and travel writer.

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    Edward Owen Rutter was born on 7th November 1889, apparently in New York, United States of America. He went to live in the United Kingdo...
Wednesday, 2 July 2025

Jack Girling (?1898 - ?1916) – soldier poet

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Found by Stephen Cribari  Stephen contacted me recently with the following information: The following is from Seldon & Walsh, "Publ...
Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Walter Butler Palmer (1868 - 1932) - American Poet

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With thanks to Hazel Basford who  found this poem typed on a folded sheet of paper and dropped at the Lochnagar Crater on the morning of 24t...
Saturday, 17 May 2025

John Hay Maitland HARDYMAN, DSO, MC, FZS (1894 – 1918) - British

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J John was born in Bath on 28th September 1894.  He was the eldest son of Dr. George H. Perrymead Hardyman, a medical practitioner, and his ...
Thursday, 8 May 2025

Frank Stuart Flint (1885 – 1960) – British poet

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Frank Stuart Flint was born on 19th December 1885 in Barnsbury, Islington, North London, UK.  His parents were William T. Flint and his wife...
Sunday, 23 February 2025

John Peale Bishop (1892 –1944) - American poet and WW1 soldier

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John Peale Bishop was born in Charles Town, West Virginia, USA on 21st May 1892.  His family were from New England. John was educated in Hag...
Friday, 27 September 2024

Rudyard Kipling (1865 – 1936) – British journalist, novelist, poet, and short-story writer.

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  Joseph Rudyard Kipling was born in Bombay, India on 30th December 1865.  He began writing poetry at an early age while he was at the Unite...