# Marlborough, and Other Poems

Author: Sorley, Charles Hamilton, 1895-1915

Genre: Category: Poetry

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67791

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=Marlborough%2C+and+Other+Poems+Sorley&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

What was said concerning the author in the preface to the first edition may be repeated here. He was born at Old Aberdeen on 19 May 1895. From 1900 onwards his home was in Cambridge. He was at Marlborough College from September 1908 till December 1913, when he was elected to a scholarship at University College, Oxford. After leaving school he spent a little more than six months in Germany, returning home on the outbreak of war. He was gazetted Second Lieutenant in the Seventh (Service) Battalion of the Suffolk Regiment in August 1914, Lieutenant in November, and Captain in the following August. His battalion was sent to France on 30 May. He was killed in action near Hulluch on 13 October...

## Chapters

- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marlborough-and-other-poems-67791/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marlborough-and-other-poems-67791/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marlborough-and-other-poems-67791/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marlborough-and-other-poems-67791/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/marlborough-and-other-poems-67791/chapters/1/index.md)