Novelist and poet. Born Philip Edward Thomas in Lambeth. He worked as a journalist and book-reviewer, and wrote a novel 'The Happy-Go-Lucky Morgans'. He is referred to as a war poet, although little of his work is concerned with warfare. He enlisted in the Artists Rifles in July 1915 and was posted to France, where he was killed in the Battle of Arras.
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Edward Thomas
Edward Thomas, 1878 - 1917, essayist and poet, lived here. London County Council
Resident of Willesden who volunteered and died in the Anglo Boer War, 1899-1900.
1st Lord Haig. Born Edinburgh into the whisky family. Senior commander during WW1. Initially nicknamed "butcher of the Somme", but then popular before his death. He has since been criticised for mi...
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