Tuesday 6 October 2009

Ivor Gurney


Born at 3 Queen Street, Gloucester in 1890.He enlisted as a private soldier in the Gloucestershire Regiment. He was wounded in April 1917 and gassed in September the same year. After his release from hospital he was posted to Seaton Delaval, a mining village in Northumberland, where he wrote poems including 'Lying awake in the ward'. His first volume of poetry, Severn and Somme, was published in November 1917, followed by War's Embers in 1919.

Henry Wooles, Dan Atlee, Nathan Giles-Donovan.

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