Louis Arthur Klemantaski was a gifted literary man, particularly specialising in musical criticism (he founded and edited his own musical quarterly 'Euterpe' when he was only 18). In 1913 he represented England at the Ghent Musical Conference. He grew up in an artistic family and was a budding young poet, a brother in law of Harold Monro, also a poet who ran a bookshop in Bloomsbury. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on 19 November 1914 with the 8th Berkshire Regiment, he married on 7 October 1915 in Wareham, Dorset a young artist Phyllis Powell. Their marriage was short lived, for he was bayoneted by a German soldier in a trench near Loos in the Pas-de-Calais at the young age of 24.
Louis Arthur Klemantaski was a gifted literary man, particularly specialising in musical criticism (he founded and edited his own musical quarterly 'Euterpe' when he was only 18). In 1913 he represented England at the Ghent Musical Conference. He grew up in an artistic family and was a budding young poet, a brother in law of Harold Monro, also a poet who ran a bookshop in Bloomsbury. Commissioned as a Second Lieutenant on 19 November 1914 with the 8th Berkshire Regiment, he married on 7 October 1915 in Wareham, Dorset a young artist Phyllis Powell. Their marriage was short lived, for he was bayoneted by a German soldier in a trench near Loos in the Pas-de-Calais at the young age of 24.
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Second Lieutenant, 8th Battalion, Royal Berkshire Regiment. Killed in action. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Sigmund Klemantaski of 2 Tanza Rd., Hampstead, London. Native of London. Mentioned in Despatches. Age: 24.
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