George Alfred Magee ('Colonel') Kolkhorst (1897–1958) was an Oxford don, first a lecturer and then Reader in Spanish.
In the later part of World War I he was in Galicia, Spain on official work.
He used to wear a cube of sugar on a string around his neck "to sweeten my conversation", and was universally known among Oxford undergraduates as "Colonel" Kolkhorst — allegedly because he looked and behaved so utterly unlike a colonel.
A poem about Kolkhorst's death is included in Betjeman's posthumous collection Harvest Bells (pp.
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