Sailing for the Dardanelles, he died of septicemia on a hospital ship after a mosquito bite.
Buried in an olive grove on Skyros, this Rugby native celebrated his childhood in "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester". He wandered about the South Seas, composing such poems as "Tiare Tahiti" and "Waikiki" before joining the Royal Navy for WWI. Sailing for the Dardanelles, he died of septicemia on a hospital ship after a mosquito bite. FTP, name this poet, best known for the sonnet sequence 1914.
Buried in an olive grove on Skyros, this Rugby native celebrated his childhood in "The Old Vicarage, Grantchester".
Rupert Brooke