Summary
ARMISTICE DAY SPECIAL: As communities gather to honour the war dead, individual sacrifices are remembered He won a Military Cross during the first world war and was an accomplished poet, yet Torcuil Crichton was unaware that a hero had lived so close to him
HE was a war hero who won the Military Cross, a poet whose work has been compared to Wilfred Owen's and whose literary legacy was almost lost when he was killed on the Western Front.See the full content of this document
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The Warrior Poet Who Lived Next Door
The story of John Munro illuminates the gap between the millions of first world war dead whom we commemorate on Armistice Day and our fading memory of the fallen as individuals.
Munro was born only two doors away from my home and was, until recently, unknown to me. The 28-year-old secondl...See the full content of this document
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