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This site presents the story of the First World War in the West Flanders region. The various categories provide a wealth of information about a range of subjects.
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The Twelve Poets of the Ypres Salient
Lt Col John Ebenezer Stewart, listed on the Tyne Cot Memorial to the Missing, was glad of the MC he had won, if only to prove that ‘fellows who write verse are not softies.’
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Captain Eric Fitzwater Wilkinson M.C
Captain Eric Fitzwater Wilkinson M.C. ‘A’ Company, 8th Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment (Leeds Rifles), Twelve Poets of the Ypres Salient. On 15 July 1915, when on a patrol in No Man’s land along with two Riflemen, Clough and Mudd, near St Julien, Mudd was wounded in the chest his cries attracted the attention of the Germans. Wilkinson and the other man carried the wounded Rifleman back 120 yards to the British trenches under German fire. Eric was awarded the Military Cross.
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Lieutenant Colonel John Ebenezer Stewart M.C
Lieutenant Colonel John ebenezer Stewart M.C. 8th Battalion Border Regiment attached 4th Battalion South Staffordshire Regiment, Twelve Poets of the Ypres Salient. He graduated from the University of Glasgow with an MA in 1910 and took up a teaching post at Langloan School in Coatbridge. At the outbreak of the war he enlisted as a Private in the Highland Light Infantry and in November 1914 was commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 8th Battalion Border Regiment.
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Lieutenant Robert William Sterling
Lieutenant Robert William Sterling,1st Battalion Royal Scots Fusiliers, Twelve Poets of the Ypres Salient. He was educated at Glasgow Academy, Sedbergh School, and Pembroke College, Oxford. In 1914, while at Pembroke College, he won the Newdigate Prize with his poem ‘The Burial of Sophocles’. On the outbreak of war he applied for and received a commission in the Royal Scots Fusiliers and sent the remainder of 1914 training in Scotland before being sent to France in February
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Lieutenant Gerald George Samuel
Lieutenant Gerald George Samuel, 10th Battalion Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment), Twelve Poets of the Ypres Salient. He was educated at Eton and then on leaving he travelled to Japan, Canada and the United States. On his return he devoted his life to the poor children of London’s East End. Gerald and his friend Denzil Myer established a Home for boys in Stepney. Gerald was Honorary Secretary and Denzil Myer, a member of the Apprenticing Committee, purchased a freehold o
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Captain The Honourable Colwyn Erasmus Arnold Phillips
Captain the Honourable Colwyn Erasmus Arnold Phillips, Royal Horse Guards, 8th Cavalry Brigade, 3rd Cavalry Division, Twelve Poets of the Ypres Salient. He was educated at Eton and attended The Royal Military College, Sandhurst, receiving his Commission in the Royal Horse Guards on 6 October 1908. He was promoted to Lieutenant on 30 July 1909 and in June 1911, now a Captain, led the Escort for the return of King George V and Queen Mary from Windsor, the week after the Coronat
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2nd Lieutenant Harold Parry
2nd Lieutenant Harold Parry, 17th Battalion King’s Royal Rifle Corps, Twelve Poets of the Ypres Salient. In January 1916 while at Oxford he volunteered for army service and was commissioned as Second Lieutenant in the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and was posted to the 11th (Reserve) Battalion, 90th Infantry Brigade, 30th Division. After four months training at Rugeley, just a few miles from his home at Bloxwich, he transferred to the King's Royal Rifle Corps on 26 May
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Lieutenant Walter Scott Stuart Lyon
Lieutenant Walter Scott Stuart Lyon, ‘C’ Company, 9th Battalion Royal Scots, Twelve Poets of the Ypres Salient. He was educated at Haileybury College, Balliol College, Oxford, and then studied law at the University of Edinburgh from where he graduated LLB in 1912 and was admitted to the Faculty of Advocates. He was the first Advocate to be killed in the First World War and the first to be killed in action since the Battle of Flodden.
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L/Cpl Francis Edward Ledwidge
L/Cpl Francis Ledwidge, ‘B’ Company, 1st Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, 29th Division. Twelve Poets of the Ypres Salient. He returned to working on the roads, following his dismissal from the copper mine for organising a strike for better pay, until November 1913 when he took up the post of Secretary to the County Labour Union. In the Spring of 1914 he joined the newly formed Irish Volunteers and was elected Secretary of the Slane branch.
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Lieutenant John Collinson Hobson
Lieutenant John Collinson Hobson, 116th Machine Gun Company, 116th Infantry Brigade, Twelve Poets of the Ypres Salient. He obtained his commission by joining his father’s old Battalion, the Inns of Court OTC, and after serving in the ranks for a few days was gazetted in September 1914 as a 2nd Lieutenant in the 12th Battalion Royal Scots. He had always wanted to serve in a Scottish Regiment, being of Scottish descent. In early 1915 he was promoted to Lieutenant....
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2nd Lieutenant William Robert Hamilton
2nd Lieutenant William Robert Hamilton, Coldstream Guards, attached 4th Battalion Guards Machine Gun Regiment, He was born in Dumfries, Scotland and emigrated to South Africa. He was employed as a Lecturer in Philosophy at the University College, Cape Town. He came to England in December 1915 and in January 1916 joined the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps. After six months training with the Inns of Court OTC William applied for a commission in the Coldstream Guards.
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Private Ellis Humphrey Evans
Private Ellis Humphrey Evans, Known as ‘Hedd Wyn’, 15th Battalion, Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Twelve Poets of the Ypres Salient. He won the first of his six bardic chairs at Bala in 1907 and was given his bardic name ‘Hedd Wyn’ at a concert held in Merionethshire in August 1910.He was granted seven weeks leave in the Spring of 1917 to return home and work as a ploughman on the farm. During this time he continued his work on ‘The Hero’ and returning to his Battalion he completed
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Lieutenant John Brown M.C
Lieutenant John Brown M.C., 6th Battalion attached 9th Battalion Seaforth Highlanders (Pioneers). John enlisted as Private in the 9th Battalion Royal Scots (Lothian Regiment) in September 1914, and went to France on 24 February. Towards the end of May 1915, the Battalion was in the line on the Ypres to Vlamertinghe Road when John was severely wounded and was sent back to the UK spending time convalescing in Leicester Hospital. He was commissioned on 5 August 1915.
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