Roland Leighton

Roland Leighton (March 27, 1895-December 23, 1915), was a British poet and soldier, immortalised in Vera Brittain's memoir, Testament of Youth.

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March 27 - 1895 - December 23 - 1915 - Vera Brittain - Testament of Youth

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Leighton was a pupil at Uppingham School, where he became a close friend of Vera Brittain's brother, Edward. He obtained a commission in the Worcestershire Regiment in 1915, and was sent to France. He died of wounds at the age of twenty, having been badly wounded while on a wiring party, and is buried in the military cemetery at Louvencourt, near Doullens, France.

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Uppingham School - Worcestershire Regiment - 1915 - Military cemetery - Doullens - France

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Vera Brittain, who had accepted his proposal of marriage four months before his death, was to include him, and quote some of his work, in of her writing at the time, including Testament of Youth; and some of Leighton's letters were included in her Letters from a Lost Generation.

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