WW1 MEMORIAL/MEMOIR FAMOUS OFFICER/POET KIA YPRES 1915- R. Sterling.

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WW1 MEMORIAL/MEMOIR FAMOUS OFFICER/POET KIA YPRES 1915 � � � � � � This original memoir and collection of very emotive poems entitled ‘The Poems of Robert Sterling’ is dedicated to a young Scotsman, Lieutenant Robert Sterling, Royal Scots Fusiliers, a renown war poet, who was killed in action 23rd April 1915 (St George’s Day) � age 21 � Published by Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press; 1916; 69pp with nice portrait fronttis (with intact tissue guard) in uniform; large (totally intact) folding plate with example of authors handwritten text. Hardbound in original bright blue cloth; bright gilt titles to front cover and spine; size 7” x 4.75”. Book condition extremely good. The very slightest of rubbing on corners (not bumped) Very clean, bright and tight. No previou owner’s inscriptions � Lieutenant Robert W. Sterling was born in Glasgow, 19th November 1893. He was educated at Glasgow Academy, and Sedbergh School, from where, in 1912, he gained a Classical Scholarship to Pembroke College, Oxford and two years later won the Newdigate Prize with his poem, "The Burial of Sophocles". On the declaration of war he volunteered and was commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Scots Fusiliers and sent to Scotland for training. Sterling arrived in the Ypres area in February 1915 and saw much fighting around St. Eloi. He was hospitalized read more

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