STATUE TO A POET
FXWEI LED AT BFRI AL PL AC-K A FRIEND OF GREECE (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) Lan don, April 6. “Rupert Brooke, the noble friend of Greece, and his immortal poetry,” is the inscription at the base of a nude statue -ftf Brpolcg, internationally sidiscribcd and uiiveiJed to-dav with a simple ceremony at File Island of Skyros in the pj*esenee of internation, al writers. The poet Laseellcs Abercrombie had previously recited, one of Brooke s pocin S t over hi* grave'. Rupert Brooke died In Skvro.s in 1915 at the age of s 2S. At the time lie was an officer in the. Royal Naval Division.
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Feilding Star, Volume 8, Issue 2398, 7 April 1931, Page 5
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