Admin Michelle Young Posted 9 August , 2022 Admin Share Posted 9 August , 2022 Out and about near Marlborough today, found this memorial to the war poet who was killed at Loos. He would walk to Marlborough College from his home in Cambridge before term started. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonraker Posted 9 August , 2022 Share Posted 9 August , 2022 Lucky you, Michelle, though I bet that it was hot on the Marlborough Downs! Ironically Sorley loved running on the downs in the rain. I've posted about the signpost before, firstly when I spotted it in an Imperial War Museum exhibition some years ago. (The IWM had borrowed it, with permission.) And last year I posted a photo (IIRC) of the post with a sheet of A4 inside a plastic cover tacked to it and giving some info. That appears to have disappeared. I did email Marlborough College - where Sorley was educated - suggesting that an info board, perhaps made by the pupils, might be installed. Sadly I didn't get a reply. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 9 August , 2022 Author Admin Share Posted 9 August , 2022 We had a lovely walk in Savernake Forest then went to Ramsbury for a pint then up to the memorial. Yes the A4 sheet had gone from our last visit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonraker Posted 9 August , 2022 Share Posted 9 August , 2022 Not too much of interest for WWI enthusiasts to see in the Ramsbury-Savernake locality, rather more for WWII enthusiasts. Roger Day, The Western Kennet Valley in the Great War, is very good about ASC convoys parked in Hungerford and Marlborough and on the towns' respective commons, and about local Red Cross hospitals, also a PoW work camp at Burney Farm. Had you continued north from the signpost, you might have passed the site of the hamlet of Snap, used for training during WWI, then near a large bomb crater resulting from training, before looking down to the site of Chisledon Camp; the platforms of the WWI camp railway remain, hidden in undergrowth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Admin Michelle Young Posted 9 August , 2022 Author Admin Share Posted 9 August , 2022 One for another day! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moonraker Posted 10 August , 2022 Share Posted 10 August , 2022 By a very roundabout route I've come across this previous thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seaJane Posted 11 August , 2022 Share Posted 11 August , 2022 Edward Hilton Young in 'A Muse at Sea' also has a poem or two reminiscing about Marlborough and Savernake: https://archive.org/details/museatseaverses00kennuoft/page/15/mode/1up?view=theater https://archive.org/details/museatseaverses00kennuoft/page/29/mode/1up?view=theater Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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