Wilfred Owen

Wilfred Owen

male, deceased (1918)
Wikisource Futility, Wikisource Strange Meeting, World War I, Recipient of the Military Cross, World War I poet, english poetry…British, Killed in action, First World War, BritishWorldWarIkilledinaction, Poison gas in World War I
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen, MC (March 18 1893 - November 4 1918) was a British poet and soldier, regarded by many as the leading poet of the First...
Rupert Brooke

Rupert Brooke

male, deceased (1915)
W. B. Yeats, Sonneteers, islomaniac, Killed in action, Old Rugbeian, Royal Navy officer…World War I, First World War, British, BritishWorldWarIkilledinaction, War Sonnets
Rupert Chawner Brooke (August 3, 1887 - April 23, 1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic "War Sonnets" written during the First World...
Albert Ball

Albert Ball

male (Nottingham)
Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, Military Cross, Royal Flying Corps, Distinguished Service Order, BritishWorldWarIkilledinaction, Old Nottinghamian…killed in aircraft crash, First World War, British, British Empire, World War I Victoria Cross recipient
Captain Albert Ball (1896-1917) was Britain's highest scoring profile fighter pilot during World War One. Ball, who was born in Nottingham,...
Nelson Victor Carter

Nelson Victor Carter

male, deceased (1916)
Killed in action, World War I, Victoria Cross, First World War, BritishWorldWarIkilledinaction, Royal Sussex Regiment…British Army, World War I Victoria Cross recipient, British, British Army soldier
Nelson Victor Carter VC (April 9, 1887 - June 30, 1916) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for...
Noel Godfrey Chavasse

Noel Godfrey Chavasse

male, deceased (1917)
Liverpool Scottish, 1/10th (Scottish) Battalion, Old Waynflete, Olympic competitor for Great Britain, King's Regiment, Recipient of the Military Cross…Killed in action, First World War, World War I Victoria Cross recipient, British Army, BritishWorldWarIkilledinaction
Captain Noel Godfrey Chavasse VC and bar MC (November 9, 1884 - August 4 1917) was a British medic and soldier who is one of only three people to...
Henry Moseley

Henry Moseley

male, deceased (1915)
physicist, 1887-1915, World War I, Royal Engineers officer, craters of the Moon named after them, Killed in action…British, BritishWorldWarIkilledinaction
Henry Gwyn Jeffreys Moseley was an English physicist. His main contributions to science were the quantitative justification of the previously...
Isaac Rosenberg

Isaac Rosenberg

male, deceased (1918)
Alumni of Slade School of Art, Killed in action, English poet, Poems from the Trenches, BritishWorldWarIkilledinaction, First World War…War poet, British, World War I, World War I poet
Isaac Rosenberg (November 25, 1890 - April 1, 1918) was an English poet of the First World War who was considered to be one of the greatest of all...
Siegfried Herford

Siegfried Herford

male, deceased (1916)
World War I, Killed in action, Farnborough Airfield, bouldering, rock climber, autistic…British, BritishWorldWarIkilledinaction
Siegfried Herford was a British climber who was active in the years immediately prior to World War I. He and John Laycock and Stanley Jeffcoat...

Harold Ackroyd

male, deceased (1917)
World War I, Killed in action, Army Officer, Military Cross, Victoria Cross, British…BritishWorldWarIkilledinaction, World War I Victoria Cross recipient, aware he had been put in for the VC
Harold Ackroyd VC, MC (18 July, 1877—11 August, 1917) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for ga...
Charles Sorley

Charles Sorley

male, deceased (1915)
Killed in action, poet laureate, poet, Western Front, BritishWorldWarIkilledinaction, Alumni of University College, Oxford…Across your dreams in pale battalions go, World War I poet, World War I, British, In Pale Battalions
Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley was a British poet of World War I. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he was the son of William Ritchie Sorley. He was...