Julian Grenfell
Julian Grenfell (
1888-
1915) was a British
poet of
World War I. He was the son and heir of Lord Desborough, and was educated at
Eton College and
Balliol College, Oxford. He joined the army in
1910, well before the outbreak of war, and his most famous poem,
Into Battle, was published in
The Times in
1915, only a few weeks before he was killed in action.