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Saint Eloi, one of the most popular Saints of the Middle Ages, founded a monastery near the present village of Mont St. Eloi, five miles northwest of the city of Arras in northern France. The ruins of the monastery remain, and in 1917-18 were close to the Western Front. There is also a British Military Cemetery nearby.
Eloi may also be a reference to the words of Christ on the cross: 'Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabacthani? . . . My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' (Mark 15:34-5).
Geoffrey England Taylor, a fellow cadet at the training academy at Bloomsbury in London, was MacGreevy's closest friend during the war. Both men were drafted to the same division in France. MacGreevy was assigned to guns, Taylor to trench mortars: 'the greatest misfortune that could befall a gunner-officer. Trench mortars were regarded with horror . . . [they were] a suicide club.'
While MacGreevy was recovering from his shoulder wound in Manchester, he found Taylor's name in the Died of Wounds section of the Casualty List. The death of Geoffrey Taylor, 'one of the most sensitively gentle' of men, represented to MacGreevy the worst horror of war: the destruction of 'life's hopes and dreams'; 'intelligence and beauty'.
Geoffrey England Taylor, a fellow cadet at the training academy at Bloomsbury in London, was MacGreevy's closest friend during the war. Both men were drafted to the same division in France. MacGreevy was assigned to guns, Taylor to trench mortars: 'the greatest misfortune that could befall a gunner-officer. Trench mortars were regarded with horror . . . [they were] a suicide club.'
While MacGreevy was recovering from his shoulder wound in Manchester, he found Taylor's name in the Died of Wounds section of the Casualty List. The death of Geoffrey Taylor, 'one of the most sensitively gentle' of men, represented to MacGreevy the worst horror of war: the destruction of 'life's hopes and dreams'; 'intelligence and beauty'.
Saint Eloi, one of the most popular Saints of the Middle Ages, founded a monastery near the present village of Mont St. Eloi, five miles northwest of the city of Arras in northern France. The ruins of the monastery remain, and in 1917-18 were close to the Western Front. There is also a British Military Cemetery nearby.
Eloi may also be a reference to the words of Christ on the cross: 'Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabacthani? . . . My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' (Mark 15:34-5).
Geoffrey England Taylor, a fellow cadet at the training academy at Bloomsbury in London, was MacGreevy's closest friend during the war. Both men were drafted to the same division in France. MacGreevy was assigned to guns, Taylor to trench mortars: 'the greatest misfortune that could befall a gunner-officer. Trench mortars were regarded with horror . . . [they were] a suicide club.'
While MacGreevy was recovering from his shoulder wound in Manchester, he found Taylor's name in the Died of Wounds section of the Casualty List. The death of Geoffrey Taylor, 'one of the most sensitively gentle' of men, represented to MacGreevy the worst horror of war: the destruction of 'life's hopes and dreams'; 'intelligence and beauty'.
Geoffrey England Taylor, a fellow cadet at the training academy at Bloomsbury in London, was MacGreevy's closest friend during the war. Both men were drafted to the same division in France. MacGreevy was assigned to guns, Taylor to trench mortars: 'the greatest misfortune that could befall a gunner-officer. Trench mortars were regarded with horror . . . [they were] a suicide club.'
While MacGreevy was recovering from his shoulder wound in Manchester, he found Taylor's name in the Died of Wounds section of the Casualty List. The death of Geoffrey Taylor, 'one of the most sensitively gentle' of men, represented to MacGreevy the worst horror of war: the destruction of 'life's hopes and dreams'; 'intelligence and beauty'.
Saint Eloi, one of the most popular Saints of the Middle Ages, founded a monastery near the present village of Mont St. Eloi, five miles northwest of the city of Arras in northern France. The ruins of the monastery remain, and in 1917-18 were close to the Western Front. There is also a British Military Cemetery nearby.
Eloi may also be a reference to the words of Christ on the cross: 'Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabacthani? . . . My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' (Mark 15:34-5).
Geoffrey England Taylor, a fellow cadet at the training academy at Bloomsbury in London, was MacGreevy's closest friend during the war. Both men were drafted to the same division in France. MacGreevy was assigned to guns, Taylor to trench mortars: 'the greatest misfortune that could befall a gunner-officer. Trench mortars were regarded with horror . . . [they were] a suicide club.'
While MacGreevy was recovering from his shoulder wound in Manchester, he found Taylor's name in the Died of Wounds section of the Casualty List. The death of Geoffrey Taylor, 'one of the most sensitively gentle' of men, represented to MacGreevy the worst horror of war: the destruction of 'life's hopes and dreams'; 'intelligence and beauty'.
Geoffrey England Taylor, a fellow cadet at the training academy at Bloomsbury in London, was MacGreevy's closest friend during the war. Both men were drafted to the same division in France. MacGreevy was assigned to guns, Taylor to trench mortars: 'the greatest misfortune that could befall a gunner-officer. Trench mortars were regarded with horror . . . [they were] a suicide club.'
While MacGreevy was recovering from his shoulder wound in Manchester, he found Taylor's name in the Died of Wounds section of the Casualty List. The death of Geoffrey Taylor, 'one of the most sensitively gentle' of men, represented to MacGreevy the worst horror of war: the destruction of 'life's hopes and dreams'; 'intelligence and beauty'.
Saint Eloi, one of the most popular Saints of the Middle Ages, founded a monastery near the present village of Mont St. Eloi, five miles northwest of the city of Arras in northern France. The ruins of the monastery remain, and in 1917-18 were close to the Western Front. There is also a British Military Cemetery nearby.
Eloi may also be a reference to the words of Christ on the cross: 'Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabacthani? . . . My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' (Mark 15:34-5).
Geoffrey England Taylor, a fellow cadet at the training academy at Bloomsbury in London, was MacGreevy's closest friend during the war. Both men were drafted to the same division in France. MacGreevy was assigned to guns, Taylor to trench mortars: 'the greatest misfortune that could befall a gunner-officer. Trench mortars were regarded with horror . . . [they were] a suicide club.'
While MacGreevy was recovering from his shoulder wound in Manchester, he found Taylor's name in the Died of Wounds section of the Casualty List. The death of Geoffrey Taylor, 'one of the most sensitively gentle' of men, represented to MacGreevy the worst horror of war: the destruction of 'life's hopes and dreams'; 'intelligence and beauty'.
Geoffrey England Taylor, a fellow cadet at the training academy at Bloomsbury in London, was MacGreevy's closest friend during the war. Both men were drafted to the same division in France. MacGreevy was assigned to guns, Taylor to trench mortars: 'the greatest misfortune that could befall a gunner-officer. Trench mortars were regarded with horror . . . [they were] a suicide club.'
While MacGreevy was recovering from his shoulder wound in Manchester, he found Taylor's name in the Died of Wounds section of the Casualty List. The death of Geoffrey Taylor, 'one of the most sensitively gentle' of men, represented to MacGreevy the worst horror of war: the destruction of 'life's hopes and dreams'; 'intelligence and beauty'.
Textual Notes
Saint Eloi, one of the most popular Saints of the Middle Ages, founded a monastery near the present village of Mont St. Eloi, five miles northwest of the city of Arras in northern France. The ruins of the monastery remain, and in 1917-18 were close to the Western Front. There is also a British Military Cemetery nearby.
Eloi may also be a reference to the words of Christ on the cross: 'Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabacthani? . . . My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' (Mark 15:34-5).
Geoffrey England Taylor, a fellow cadet at the training academy at Bloomsbury in London, was MacGreevy's closest friend during the war. Both men were drafted to the same division in France. MacGreevy was assigned to guns, Taylor to trench mortars: 'the greatest misfortune that could befall a gunner-officer. Trench mortars were regarded with horror . . . [they were] a suicide club.'
While MacGreevy was recovering from his shoulder wound in Manchester, he found Taylor's name in the Died of Wounds section of the Casualty List. The death of Geoffrey Taylor, 'one of the most sensitively gentle' of men, represented to MacGreevy the worst horror of war: the destruction of 'life's hopes and dreams'; 'intelligence and beauty'.
Geoffrey England Taylor, a fellow cadet at the training academy at Bloomsbury in London, was MacGreevy's closest friend during the war. Both men were drafted to the same division in France. MacGreevy was assigned to guns, Taylor to trench mortars: 'the greatest misfortune that could befall a gunner-officer. Trench mortars were regarded with horror . . . [they were] a suicide club.'
While MacGreevy was recovering from his shoulder wound in Manchester, he found Taylor's name in the Died of Wounds section of the Casualty List. The death of Geoffrey Taylor, 'one of the most sensitively gentle' of men, represented to MacGreevy the worst horror of war: the destruction of 'life's hopes and dreams'; 'intelligence and beauty'.
