Author name: Rupert Brooke

Rupert Brooke (1887–1915) was an English poet renowned for his idealistic poetry. He was a member of the renowned Bloomsbury Group. During the early months of World War I, Brooke was commissioned into the Royal Naval Division and took part in the Antwerp expedition in 1914. In February 1915, he sailed with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force heading for the Gallipoli campaign. However, he never saw combat there because he died on April 23, 1915, at age 27, from septicemia caused by an infected mosquito bite while aboard a French hospital ship near the Greek island of Skyros. He was buried on Skyros in an olive grove, with his grave still marked there today.