Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 - 23 April 1915) was an
English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during
the First World War, especially "The Soldier." He was also known
for his boyish good looks, which were said to have prompted the
Irish poet W. B. Yeats to describe him as "the handsomest young man
in England." He was commissioned into the Royal Naval Volunteer
Reserve as a temporary Sub-Lieutenant shortly after his 27th
birthday and took part in the Royal Naval Division's Antwerp
expedition in October 1914. He sailed with the British
Mediterranean Expeditionary Force on 28 February 1915 but developed
sepsis from an infected mosquito bite. He died at 4:46 pm on 23
April 1915 in a French hospital ship moored in a bay off the island
of Skyros in the Aegean on his way to the landing at Gallipoli. As
the expeditionary force had orders to depart immediately, he was
buried at 11 pm in an olive grove on Skyros, Greece.
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