Poet. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he was killed In Action by a German sniper on October 13, 1915, while serving with the 7th Battalion Suffolk Regiment at the Battle of Loos. One of the more famous of the First World War poets, one of his last poems was "When you see millions of the mouthless dead Across your dreams in pale battalions go, Say not soft things as other men have said, That you'll remember. For you need not so. Give them not praise.For, deaf, how should they know It is not curses heaped on each gashed head? Nor tears. Their blind eyes see not you tears flow. Nor honour. It is easy to be dead. Say only yhis, "They are dead.'Then add thereto, "Yet many a better one has died before" Then, scannning all the o'ercrowded mass, should you Perceive one face that you loved heretofore, It is spook. None wears the face you knew. Great death has made all his for evermore".
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Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Suffolk Regiment, 7th Bn.
Son of Mr. W. R. and Mrs. J. C. Sorley, of St. Giles', Chesterton Lane, Cambridge. Sorley was educated at Marlborough and won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He enlisted in August 1914 and soon found himself in the trenches; he made Captain in August, 1915. Sorley was killed in action at Loos in October of the same year. His 'Marlborough and Other Poems' was published in 1916 and ran into four editions. It was said that Sorley had a real gift for rhyming.
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Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Suffolk Regiment, 7th Bn.
Son of Mr. W. R. and Mrs. J. C. Sorley, of St. Giles', Chesterton Lane, Cambridge. Sorley was educated at Marlborough and won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He enlisted in August 1914 and soon found himself in the trenches; he made Captain in August, 1915. Sorley was killed in action at Loos in October of the same year. His 'Marlborough and Other Poems' was published in 1916 and ran into four editions. It was said that Sorley had a real gift for rhyming.
Poet. Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he was killed In Action by a German sniper on October 13, 1915, while serving with the 7th Battalion Suffolk Regiment at the Battle of Loos. One of the more famous of the First World War poets, one of his last poems was "When you see millions of the mouthless dead Across your dreams in pale battalions go, Say not soft things as other men have said, That you'll remember. For you need not so. Give them not praise.For, deaf, how should they know It is not curses heaped on each gashed head? Nor tears. Their blind eyes see not you tears flow. Nor honour. It is easy to be dead. Say only yhis, "They are dead.'Then add thereto, "Yet many a better one has died before" Then, scannning all the o'ercrowded mass, should you Perceive one face that you loved heretofore, It is spook. None wears the face you knew. Great death has made all his for evermore".
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Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Suffolk Regiment, 7th Bn.
Son of Mr. W. R. and Mrs. J. C. Sorley, of St. Giles', Chesterton Lane, Cambridge. Sorley was educated at Marlborough and won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He enlisted in August 1914 and soon found himself in the trenches; he made Captain in August, 1915. Sorley was killed in action at Loos in October of the same year. His 'Marlborough and Other Poems' was published in 1916 and ran into four editions. It was said that Sorley had a real gift for rhyming.
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Age: 20
Regiment/Service: Suffolk Regiment, 7th Bn.
Son of Mr. W. R. and Mrs. J. C. Sorley, of St. Giles', Chesterton Lane, Cambridge. Sorley was educated at Marlborough and won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He enlisted in August 1914 and soon found himself in the trenches; he made Captain in August, 1915. Sorley was killed in action at Loos in October of the same year. His 'Marlborough and Other Poems' was published in 1916 and ran into four editions. It was said that Sorley had a real gift for rhyming.
Bio by: EHL
Inscription
SUFFOLK REGIMENT
CAPTAIN
V.C. SORLEY C.H.
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Final resting place unknown. Name listed on the Memorial
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