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Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley was one of the 16 Great War poets recognized in the Westminster Abbey’s Poet’s Corner. He was a Scottish First World War poet, was the son of a philosopher and Professor William Ritchie Sorley. He studied at Marlborough College. His hobbies include cross-country running in the rain which inspired him to write the poems, Rain and The Song of the Ungirt Runners.Captain Sorley was a Protestant and had strict observance of it, he was also prudent. At school, upon accidentally violating the school rules twice, he volunteered to be reprimanded.Before studying college at University College, Oxford, Sorley traveled to Germany to study the language and their culture. He studied at the University of Jena up to the surge of World War I. Britain declared war against Germany. Sorley was detained but freed on the same day and was instructed to leave the country. He went to England and volunteered as a soldier, as a Second Lieutenant. He went to France and got promoted as Captain afterwards.Captain Sorley died being shot in the head by a sniper during the Battle of Loos. He was commemorated on the CWGC Loos Memorial. Captain Sorley was looked upon as one of the most valued and the biggest loss of all the poets killed during the war. The inscription in his tomb reads, “My subject is War, and the pity of War. The poetry is in the pity.” The inscription was done by Wilfred Owen.37 of his poems were completed and were found in his kit after he died. Marlborough and Other Poems was published, and had gone six editions. His brief poems are wavering, sarcastic, and intense. His last poem sketches a mass of dead persons caused by war. It sounded like he was hopeless and conflicted.
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