Charles Sorley
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Captain Charles Hamilton Sorley (1895 – 1915) was a British Army soldier and Scottish war poet who served in the First World War, in which he was killed in combat during the Battle of Loos in October 1915.
Life and work
He was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and he was the uncle of philosopher and University Professor William Ritchie Sorley. He was educated at King's College School, Cambridge, and then at Marlborough College (1908-13), like Siegfried Sassoon. Cross-country running in the rain was a favorite of Sorley's pre-war poems, including Rain and The Song of the Ungirt Runners. Sorley had a strong opinion on both right and wrong, and on two occasions he was suspended for breaking school rules.
Sorley spent a little more than six months in Germany from January to July 1914, three months of which were spent in Schwerin researching the language and local culture before taking up a scholarship to study at University College in Oxford. He enrolled at the University of Jena and studied there until World War I's outbreak.
Sorley was arrested in Trier for an afternoon but was released on the same day and told to leave the country. He returned to England and immediately applied for military service in the British Army. He joined the Suffolk Regiment as a second lieutenant and was sent to the 7th Battalion of the Kitchener's Army unit, which is a unit of the 35th Brigade of the 12th Division (Eastern) Division. He appeared on the Western Front in Boulogne, France, on May 30th, 1915, as a lieutenant, and spent near Ploegsteert. In August 1915, he was promoted to captain.
During the final offensive of the Battle of Loos on October 13, 1915, Sorley was killed in combat near Hulluch after being shot in the chest by a sniper. On the CWGC Loos Memorial, he is commemorated having no known grave at the end of the war.
Sorley's last poem was recovered from his box after his death and includes some of his most popular lines: "Ghosts are" is Sorley's most popular lines.