Gerald Caldwell Siordet

Gerald Caldwell Siordet (13 June 1885 – 9 February 1917) was an English poet and a 2nd Lieutenant in the Rifle Brigade 13th Battalion who died during World War I.

In January 1912 Hatton set up a studio in London and shared it with Siordet: they called it The Bronze Door.

Hatton enlisted in August 1914 as trooper in the Queen's Own Worcestershire Hussars, a Yeomanry regiment of the British Army.

[4] On 30 November 1915, Siordet's second poem To the Dead was first print in the Times; it was subsequently reprinted in A Crown of Amaranth (1917) and included in the collection A Book of Verse of the Great War (1917).

[5][6] Siordet's contribution to the collection has been highlighted by The Dublin Review (1918) and by Henry Seidel Canby in Education by Violence: Essays on the War and the Future (1919).

[9] On 1 July 1916, during the Battle of the Somme, he received the Military Cross for "conspicuous gallantry" in a failed attack that killed one of his closest friends, Geoffrey Watkins Smith.