Rupert Chawner Brooke was born August 3, 1887, in Rugby, Warwickshire, England, and was the third child of William Parker Brooke and Ruth Mary Cotterill.
In October of 1906, Rupert went to King's College, Cambridge, to study classics. There, he became a member of the Apostles, was elected president of the university Fabian Society, and helped found the Marlowe Society drama club, where he acted in several productions, including the Cambridge Greek Play.
Brooke enlisted at the outbreak of war in 1914 and served as a Royal Naval volunteer reserve temporary sub-lieutenant assigned to the Royal Naval division.
In 1915, Brooke became an official "war poet" when the Times Literary Supplement published two sonnets- The Dead and The Soldier.
Rupert Brooke died on April 23, 1915, on a French hospital ship moored off the Greek island of Skyros. He was 27.
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