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Charles Hamilton Sorley was born in Aberdeen on 19 May 1895. His father was a professor of philosophy at Aberdeen and then Cambridge (from 1900), and Sorley was educated at King's College Choir School and Marlborough College. Having won a place at University College, Oxford, he spent the first half of 1914 studying in Germany. He returned to Britain as World War I broke out, and became a second lieutenant in the Suffolk Regiment. He was sent to France in March 1915 and promoted to captain. He was killed by a sniper at the Battle of Loos in October 1915. His poetry collection "Marlborough and Other Poems" was published in 1916, and includes "All the Hills and Dales Along" and "When you see Millions of the Mouthless Dead".
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