I lived from 1915-1936. I was from England, and am in the English category.
Born in 1915 in Cambridge and christened Rupert John Cornford after Rupert Brooke (who had just died.)
He was the son of the poet Frances Cornford.
On the day following his twenty-first birthday, Rupert John Cornford was killed in action by machine gun fire at Cordoba.
He was the son of the poet Frances Cornford.
On the day following his twenty-first birthday, Rupert John Cornford was killed in action by machine gun fire at Cordoba.
My poetry
- The past, a glacier, gripped the mountain wall,
And time was inches, dark was all.15 lines
