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Drummond Allison

Drummond Allison

English World War II war poet (1921–1943)

(John) Drummond Allison (1921 – 2 December 1943) was an English war poet of the Second World War.

Quick Facts John Drummond Allison, Born ...

He was born in Caterham, Surrey, and educated at Bishop's Stortford College and at Queen's College, Oxford. After training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he became an intelligence officer in the East Surrey Regiment. He served in North Africa and Italy, where he was killed in action fighting on the Garigliano. Lieutenant Allison is buried in the Minturno War Cemetery.[1]

Works

  • The Yellow Night: Poems 1940-41-42-43 (1944)
  • The Poems of Drummond Allison (1978) edited by Michael Sharp
  • The Collected Poems of Drummond Allison (1993) edited by Stephen Benson

Notes

  1. [1]
    CWGC casualty details

References

  • Drummond Allison: Come, Let Us Pity Death, by Ross Davies (London:Cecil Woolf Publishers) ISBN 978-1-897967-91-1.
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