Biographical Note
THE writer of these Poems was born at Cheltenham on
January 26, 1897. His first school-days were spent at
St Faith's, Cambridge; in 1908 he went to St Andrew's,
Southborough. Two years later he was elected to a Foun-
dation Scholarship at Marlborough, adding to it a Senior
Scholarship in 1912. At his schools he showed great
promise and gained many prizes. In December 1915, he
was elected to an open Classical Exhibition at Trinity Col-
lege, Cambridge, his hope being to take Holy Orders in due
course. In the following April he left school for the Army,
and after training at a Cadet school in Oxford he received
his Commission in the 4th Wilts Regiment and proceeded
to France in April 1917.
After short leave in the following September he
returned to France, and was wounded on October 28,
coming back to England in November. After some months
on Salisbury Plain, he was attached to the Machine Gun
Corps, and went to Grantham in April. In July he left
again for France, where he was killed on the night of
September 3, 1918.
In March 1919, a small volume of his "Essays on
Religion and Life," entitled The Faith of a Subaltern,
which is now in its second impression, was issued by the
Cambridge University Press.
The following pages contain practically all his poems.
They are printed in chronological order so as to show the
development of his thought. A selection will shortly be
published by the Cambridge University Press.
H. L. C. DE C.
WESTMINSTER.
October, 1919.
[The Ven. Henry Lawe Corry Vully de Candole, Alec's father]
