Allegiance United Kingdom Role Poet Rank Lieutenant Place of burial Italy | Unit East Surrey Regiment Service/branch British Army Name Drummond Allison | |
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Buried at Minturno War Cemetery, Italy Battles/wars World War II
North African Campaign
Italian Campaign Died December 2, 1943, Garigliano, Italy Books The Collected Poems of Drummond Allison Education The Queen's College, Oxford, Bishop's Stortford College Battles and wars North African Campaign, Italian Campaign, World War II | ||
(John) Drummond Allison (1921 – 2 December 1943) was an English war poet of the Second World War.
He was born in Caterham, Surrey, and educated at Bishop's Stortford College and at Queen's College, Oxford. After training at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, he became an intelligence officer in the East Surrey Regiment. He served in North Africa and Italy, where he was killed in action fighting on the Garigliano. Lieutenant Allison lies in the Minturno War Cemetery.
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