R. E. Vernède

Rifle Brigade in 1914, at the start of World War I, although over the maximum age of service.

He returned to the front, but died after being wounded by machine gun fire while leading an advance at Havrincourt.

He was buried at Le Bucquiere Communal Cemetery Extension.

[2] Chesterton wrote an appreciation of Vernède for the school magazine, describing his death as "so heavy a loss for those of us who loved him" and called it "an addition or completion to that shining company of poets whose patriotism turned them into soldiers, and gave them a life and death more worthy of legend".

[3] His War Poems, And Other Verses was published in 1917 by William Heinemann.

Robert Ernest Vernède , an English poet and writer, now remembered as a war poet