Picture No | 10724103 |
Date | 1918 |
Description | Grave of Rupert Brooke in Skyros |
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Crosses on the Greek island of Skyros marking the grave of the English poet, Rupert Brooke (1887-1915), where he was buried having died a sea, having contracted septicaemia from an infected mosquito bite. He had joined the Royal Naval Division. The Sketch magazine, which published this photograph quoted his most famous, and as it turned out, prescient, lines, 'If I should die, think only this of me. That there's some corner of a foreign field. That is for ever England.'
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Source | Photograph in The Sketch, 13 March 1918 |
Credit | © Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans |
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