Charles Sorley
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Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley was a British Army officer and Scottish war poet who fought in the First World War. He was killed in action during the Battle of Loos in October 1915.
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Poets' Corner
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Poets' Corner is a section of the southern transept of Westminster Abbey in London, England, where many poets, playwrights, and writers are buried or commemorated.
Charles Sorley
…the poets killed during the war. On 11 November 1985, Sorley was among 16 Great War poets commemorated on a slate stone unveiled in Westminster Abbey's Poet's Corner. The inscription on the stone was taken from Wilfred Owen's "Preface" to his poems and reads: "My subject is War, and the pity of War. The Poetry is…
Memorials in Poets' Corner
Partial view of Poets' Corner
The west wall of Poets' Corner
Grave of Charles Dickens