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Rupert Chawner Brooke-Chapel

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Reference WMO/292932

Address:

Rugby School Chapel

Lawrence Sheriff Street

Rugby

CV22 5EJ

England

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Status: On original site
Type: Non freestanding
Location: Internal
Setting: Attached to a building/structure
Description: Board/Plaque/ Tablet
Materials:
  • Stone Marble
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
About the memorial: Wall mounted white marble tablet with rounded head, set into a black marble frame. Incised inscription. Medallion portrait of Brooke in top centre of tablet. Several different sources suggest that there is also a Battlefield Cross to him in the Chapel but the available photographic evidence is inconclusive, so no such record has been added here until the situation is clear.
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RUPERT BROOKE / 1887 - 1915 / IF I SHOULD DIE, THINK ONLY THIS OF ME: / THAT THERE'S SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD / THAT IS FOREVER ENGLAND. THERE SHALL BE / IN THAT RICH EARTH A RICHER DUST CONCEALED: / A DUST WHOM ENGLAND BORE, SHAPED, MADE AWARE, / GAVE ONCE HER FLOWERS TO LOVE, HER WAYS TO ROAM; / A BODY OF ENGLAND'S, BREATHING ENGLISH AIR, / WASHED BY HER RIVERS, BLEST BY SUNS OF HOME. / AND THINK, THIS HEART, ALL EVIL SHED AWAY, / A PULSE IN THE ETERNAL MIND, NO LESS GIVEN; / GIVES SOMEWHERE BACK THE THOUGHTS BY ENGLAND / HER SIGHTS & SOUNDS; DREAMS HAPPY AS HER DAY; / AND LAUGHTER, LEARNT OF FRIENDS; & GENTLENESS, / IN HEARTS AND PEACE, UNDER AN ENGLISH HEAVEN.

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