About Drummond Allison
Lived 1921 – 1943 (aged 21–22). Drummond Allison was a British military personnel and poet.
(John) Drummond Allison (1921 – 2 December 1943) was an English war poet of the Second World War.
He was born in Caterham, Surrey, and educated at Bishop's Stortford College and at Queen's College, Oxford. After training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he became an intelligence officer in the East Surrey Regiment. He served in North Africa and Italy, where he was killed in action fighting on the Garigliano. Lieutenant Allison is buried in the Minturno War Cemetery.
Works The Yellow Night: Poems 1940-41-42-43 (1944) The Poems of Drummond Allison (1978) edited by Michael Sharp The Collected Poems of Drummond Allison (1993) edited by Stephen Benson
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Who was Drummond Allison?
War poet
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Drummond Allison was born in 1921 in Caterham.
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Drummond Allison died on 2 December 1943 in Garigliano.
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Drummond Allison was a military personnel and poet.
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Drummond Allison was British.
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