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Rear Admiral Ronald Arthur Hopwood CB (7 December 1868 – 28 December 1949) was a British naval officer and poet. He began his career in 1882 with the Royal Navy as a gunnery officer, completed it in 1919 as a rear admiral, and was acclaimed in 1941 as poet laureate of the Royal Navy by Time. [1]
Roy Fuller. Roy Broadbent Fuller CBE (11 February 1912 – 27 September 1991) was an English writer, known mostly as a poet.. He was born at Failsworth, Lancashire to lower-middle-class parents Leopold Charles Fuller and his wife Nellie (1888–1949; née Broadbent), whose father was clerk to a workhouse master. [1]
Chicago, Illinois, U.S. [1] [2] Died: 30 April 1971 (aged 75) Gosport, Hampshire, England: Allegiance United Kingdom: Service / branch Royal Navy: Years of service: 1916–1954: Rank: Admiral: Commands: East Indies Station: Battles / wars: World War I World War II: Awards: Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Distinguished Service Order
John Craxton – The Times obituary; John Craxton – The Guardian′s obituary by Ian Collins; D.J. Taylor's review of a book (August 2008) on John Murray by Humphrey Carpenter that mentions the recent rejection by Waterstone's of a Craxton book cover; Obituary of Christopher Hull [dead link ] in the Independent of 26 April 2007.
Sir Reginald was born in Marylebone, Westminster, the younger son of John Plunkett, 17th Baron of Dunsany (1853–1899) [1] and his wife, Ernle Elizabeth Louisa Maria Grosvenor Burton, later Plunkett-Ernle-Erle-Drax (1855–1916). [1]
This page is a list of famous ships and sailors of the Royal Navy. The list is composed of famous sailors of the Royal Navy e.g. Horatio Nelson. The list also includes people who are famous and have served with the Royal Navy at some point e.g. Alec Guinness. This list also includes ships that have become famous in their own right, e.g. Mary Rose.
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Orson Welles read the poem on an episode of The Radio Reader's Digest (11 October 1942), [9] [10] Command Performance (21 December 1943), [11] and The Orson Welles Almanac (31 May 1944). [12] High Flight has been a favourite poem amongst both aviators and astronauts. It is the official poem of the Royal Canadian Air Force and the Royal Air Force.