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power; Henry Field was an art student; John E. Stewart, the son of working-class parents, was a school teacher; Charles Masefield, a cousin of John Masefield, was a lawyer; Francis St. Vincent Morris had entered his name on the books of Wadham, Oxford, but went from Brighton College, when the war came, to take a commission in the Sherwood Foresters; Bernard de Boismaison White had been on the staff of a London publishing house and in the publicity department of the Marconi Company; Thomas Kettle was an Irish barrister and a professor at Dublin University; Richard Dennys had taken his M.R.C.S. and L.R.C.P. degrees, but never practised—he was in Florence when war was declared, 'working with Gordon Craig at his school for the improvement of the Art of the Theatre,' and at once returned to England, and was gazetted to a regiment of the line.

One might go on, and having completed this list of the homeland's soldier poets who have been killed in action, add to it an even longer list of such poets who came