Chronology of Rupert Brooke's life

August 3rd 1887 - Rupert Chawner Brooke Born at Rugby.

1909 - Graduated from King's College, Cambridge. Travelled to Germany and Italy and became known as a

promising poet.

1911 - First book of poetry POEMS 1911 published.

1911 - Poetry first appeared in anthology Georgian Poetry, founded by Rupert Brooke along with Edward Marsh.

1913-1914 - Travels in North America and South seas (including a period as Times Correspondent).

September 1914 - Accepts commission from Winston Churchill as Sub-Lieutenant in Royal Naval Division.

October 1914 - Expedition to Antwerp. Mostly non-combatant role.

28th February 1915 - Sets sail with British Mediterranean expeditionary force bound for Gallipoli.

Easter Sunday 1915 - The Soldier quoted in a sermon by Dean Inge of St. Paul's.

4.46 pm, 23rd April 1915 - Rupert Brooke dies of blood poisoning on the French Hospital ship Duguay-Trouin moored in Trebuki bay on the Greek island of Skyros .

11pm, 23rd April 1915 - Rupert Brooke is carried to his grave in an olive grove in a torch lit procession along a dried up river bed of pink marble. Brooke is buried in a cairn grave piled with rocks and left alone amongst the poppies and dwarf holly, along with a crude wooden cross bearing the legend “Here lies a servant of God, Sub-Lieutenant in the English Navy, who died for the deliverance of Constantinople from the Turks.”

26th April 1915 - Winston Churchill publishes Brooke’s obituary in The Times, stating “Rupert Brooke is dead ... Only the echoes and the memory will remain; but they will linger.”

1915 - Second collection of poems published - 1914 and other poems, containing a memoir by Edward Marsh.

1916 - Letters from America published.

1931 - Statue and plaque to Brooke’s memory, bearing the legend To eternal poetry, Rupert Brooke 1887-1915, unveiled in a square on a hillside in Skyros town.