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Sorley, Charles Hamilton

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Cemetery: Loos Memorial

Country: France

Area: Pas De Calais

Rank: Captain

Force: Army

Official Number:

Unit: 7th Bn. Suffolk Regiment.

Country of Service: British

Details: 13th October 1915. Age 20. Son of Mr. W. R. and Mrs. J. C. Sorley of St. Giles' Chesterton Lane Cambridge. Sorley was educated at Marlborough and won a scholarship to University College Oxford. He enlisted in August 1914 and soon found himself in the trenches; he made Captain in August 1915. Sorley was killed in action at Loos in October of the same year. His 'Marlborough and Other Poems' was published in 1916 and ran into four editions. It was said that Sorley had a real gift for rhyming. Panel 37 and 38.

Photograph by Op Tribute2

Loos Memorial - Sorley, Charles Hamilton

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