“ The Noble Friend of Greece ”
MONUMENT TO RUPERT BROOKE United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. Received Monday, 9.50 p.m. LONDON, April (?. “Rupert Brooke, the noble friend of Greece, and his immortal poetry,” is the inscription at the base of a nude statue of the poet, internationally subscribed and unveiled to-day with simple ceremony at the Island of Skvros, in the presence of international writers. The poet, Lascolles Abercrombie, had previously recited one of Rupert Brooke’s poems over his grave. Rupert Brooke, om* of the most noted of England’s 20th. century poets, died at sea off the island of Lemnos during the Gallipoli campaign, when ho was only 28 years of age.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LVI, Issue 6519, 7 April 1931, Page 6
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