Sir Henry Newbolt wrote the poem "He Fell Among Thieves" about Hayward's death.
Henry Newbolt, writing in the early 1930s, estimated that there were at least 1000 active British poets, the vast majority of whom would be recognisably 'Georgian', making the group a very large one.
The engagement mentioned in verse two is the Battle of Abu Klea in Sudan in January 1885 during the unsuccessful expedition to rescue General Gordon.
Miss Emma Foxberrow; attractive blonde Cambridge graduate and feminist, under whose influence Harpole gradually changes from a buttoned-up typically "English" admirer of Sir Henry Newbolt to a crusading maverick.
The English poet Henry Newbolt immortalized Commander Tunis' sacrifice in Craven
English poet Sir Henry Newbolt's poem Gillespie is an account of the events of the Vellore Mutiny.
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Henry Newbolt's poem "Vitaï Lampada" is often quoted as referring to Burnaby's death at Abu Klea; "The Gatling's jammed and the Colonel's dead...", (although it was a Gardner machine gun which jammed).