Rupert Brooke and “The Chilterns”

I came across this looking for Bledlow and my Great Grandparents !! ... and found this ... thought it maybe of interest !

http://daithaic.blogspot.com/2009/03/rupert-brooke-and-chilterns.html

 

In Memory of
Sub-Lieutenant RUPERT CHAWNER BROOKE

Hood Bn. R.N. Div., Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve
who died age 27
on 23 April 1915
Son of the late William Parker Brooke and of Mary Rutte Brooke, of 78 Dunchurch Rd, Rugby. Rupert Brooke was a published poet as early as 1911. Suffused with patriotism he was happy to die for his country in battle. He died, not in battle but of acute blood poisoning and was buried on the Greek Island of Skyros. Brooke left his royalties to his friends, namely Lascelles Abercrombie, Wilfrid Gibson and Walter de la Mare, providing them with literary independence for the rest of their lives.

Remembered with honour
SKYROS (ISOLATED GRAVE)