Julian Grenfell (1888-1915) was a British poet of World War I. He was the son and heir of Lord Desborough, and was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. He joined the army in 1910, well before the outbreak of war, and his most famous poem, Into Battle, was published in The Times in 1915, only a few weeks before he was killed in action.
In the summer of 1910Grenfell was commissioned in the Royal Dragoons, arriving with the Regiment in India in November 1910.
Grenfell had a shell splinter in his head, and was taken to No. 10 Casualty Clearing Station; from there he wrote to his mother in pencil on blood stained paper, saying his skull was slightly cracked, but he was getting on splendidly.
JulianGrenfell DSO was buried on May 28, 1915 in the cemetery on the hill above Boulogne, looking across to the battlefields.
Feeds |
Contact