Greek tomb for an English Poet

 
Rupert Chawner Brooke (3 August 1887 - 23 April 1915) was an English poet known for his idealistic war sonnets written during the First World War, such as "The Dead" and "The Soldier".
 

In October 1906, he went up to King's College, Cambridge, to study Classics. There, among other activities, he acted in the Cambridge Greek Play, which is a play performed in Ancient Greek by students and alumni of the University of Cambridge. The event is held once every three years and is a tradition which started in 1882.
 
He died of septicaemia following a mosquito bite whilst aboard a French hospital ship moored off the island of Skyros in the Aegean Sea.
 
Rupert Brooke wrote that a corner of a foreign field would be forever England, probably similar to the Greek phrase, written by Pericles in his work Epitaphios «Ανδρών επιφανών πάσα γη τάφος» (For illustrious men have the whole earth for their tomb).
 
He was buried on Skyros by his friends on 23 April 1915, by lamplight, in a grove above Tris Boukes bay. The grave is reached by a rough road in the south of the island.