The Soldier
Despite writing one of the most famous World War One poems, Brooke never experienced combat firsthand. However, he was famed for his good looks with the Irish poet William Butler Yeats describing him as "the handsomest young man in England".
Brooke's poetry won him many friends and Edward Nash introduced Winston Churchill, then the First Lord of the Admiralty, to his work. Brooke was commissioned into the Royal Navy and sailed to the Mediterranean in 1915. There a mosquito bite became septic and he died on 23rd April 1915. He was buried in an olive grove on the Greek island Skyros.
