Editing Isaac Rosenberg (section)

==First World War==
[[File:IsaacRosenberg.jpg|thumb|200px|Private Rosenberg, personal service number 22311]]
Rosenberg was assigned to the 12th Bantam Battalion of the [[Suffolk Regiment]], a ''[[Bantam (military)|bantam]]'' being a designation for men under the usual minimum height of 5'3". After apparently declining promotion to [[lance corporal]], Rosenberg was transferred, first, to the [[South Lancashire Regiment]], then to the [[King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment]] (KORL). He was sent with his unit to serve on the [[Western Front (World War I)|Western Front]] in France, where he arrived on 3 June 1916.<ref name="Vivien Noakes" /> He continued to write poetry while serving in the trenches, including "Break of Day in the Trenches", "Returning We Hear the Larks", and "Dead Man's Dump". In December 1916, [[Poetry (magazine)|''Poetry'' Magazine]] published two of his poems.<ref name="Vivien Noakes" />

In January 1917, Rosenberg reported being sick and his family and friends asked his superiors to remove him from the front lines; he was transferred to the Fortieth Division Works Battalion and started to deliver barbed wire to the trenches.<ref name="Vivien Noakes" /> He wrote his poem ''Dead Man's Dump'' during this period. In June, he was temporarily assigned to the 229 Field Company, [[Royal Engineers]]. In September 1916, he spent ten days in London on leave.<ref name="Vivien Noakes" /> After returning to his old unit, he fell sick in October and spent two months in the 51st General Hospital. After release, he was transferred to the 1st Battalion of the King's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment.<ref name="Vivien Noakes" /> He applied for a transfer to an all-Jewish battalion, but historians have been unable to trace his application.<ref>Wilson, J. M. (2009). [https://books.google.com/books?id=1Dbd6-gD7goC&dq=Jewish+Battalion+in+Mesopotamia&pg=PA436 Isaac Rosenberg: The making of a great war poet: a new life]. Evanston, Ill: Northwestern University Press.</ref>

On 21 March 1918, the German Army started its [[German spring offensive|Spring Offensive]] on the Western Front. A week later, Rosenberg sent his last letter with the poem "Through These Pale Cold Days" to England before going to the front lines with reinforcements.<ref name="Vivien Noakes" /> Having just finished a night patrol, he was killed on the night of 1 April 1918 with another ten KORL soldiers; there is a dispute as to whether his death occurred at the hands of a sniper or in close combat. In either case, he died in a town called [[Fampoux]], northeast of [[Arras]]. He was first buried in a mass grave, but in 1926 the unidentified remains of the six KORL soldiers were individually re-interred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Plot V, [[Saint-Laurent-Blangy]], [[Pas de Calais]], France.<ref>{{cite web
|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/312909
|title=Rosenberg, Isaac – Private, 1st Bn., King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
|publisher=Commonwealth War Graves Commission
|quote=Son of Barnet and Annie Rosenberg, of 87, Dempsey St., Stepney, London. Born in Bristol. Some critics of the time considered Rosenberg the best of the war poets after Wilfred Owen.
|access-date=1 April 2009
}}
</ref> Rosenberg's gravestone is marked with his name and the words, "Buried near this spot", as well as – "Artist and Poet".<ref name="Vivien Noakes" />