Editing Rupert Brooke (section)

==Death==
[[File:Skyros - 2013-03 - Plateia Brook.JPG|thumb|Brooke Square, Skyros]]

Brooke sailed with the British [[Mediterranean Expeditionary Force]] on 28 February 1915, but developed severe [[gastroenteritis]] whilst stationed in Egypt followed by streptococcal [[sepsis]] from an infected mosquito bite. French surgeons carried out two operations to drain the abscess, but he died of septicaemia at 4:46&nbsp;pm on 23 April 1915, on the French [[hospital ship]] ''{{ill|French ship Duguay-Trouin (1900)|lt=Duguay-Trouin|fr|Duguay-Trouin (1900)}}'', moored in a bay off the Greek island of [[Skyros]] in the Aegean Sea, while on his way to the [[Gallipoli campaign#Landings|landings at Gallipoli]]. He was 27 at the time of his death. As the expeditionary force had orders to depart immediately, Brooke was buried at 11&nbsp;pm in an olive grove on Skyros.<ref name=Julian/><ref name=TNA1>{{cite web |url= http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/dol/popups/rndofficer1.htm |title=Royal Naval Division service record (extract) |publisher=[[The National Archives (United Kingdom)|The National Archives]] |access-date=11 November 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/dol/popups/rndofficer2.htm |title=Royal Naval Division service record (extract) |publisher=[[The National Archives (United Kingdom)|The National Archives]] |access-date=11 November 2007}}</ref> The site was chosen by his close friend, [[William Denis Browne]], who wrote of Brooke's death:<ref name=Musicweb>{{cite web |url=http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2002/May02/WDBrown.htm |title=William Denis Browne (1888–1915) |first=Pamela |last=Blevins |work=Musicweb International|year=2000|access-date=9 November 2007}}</ref>

{{blockquote|I sat with Rupert. At 4 o’clock he became weaker, and at 4.46 he died, with the sun shining all round his cabin, and the cool sea breeze blowing through the door and the shaded windows. No one could have wished for a quieter or a calmer end than in that lovely bay, shielded by the mountains and fragrant with sage and thyme.}}

Another friend and war poet, [[Patrick Shaw-Stewart]], assisted at his hurried funeral.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://archives.balliol.ox.ac.uk/Past%20members/PHStewart.asp|title=Patrick Houston Shaw-Stewart (1888–1917), War Poet|publisher=Balliol College Archives & Manuscripts|first=John|last=Jones}}</ref> His grave remains there still, with a monument erected by his friend Stanley Casson,<ref>{{Cwgc|id=2000332|name=Brooke, Rupert Chawner|access-date=24 June 2010}}</ref> poet and archaeologist, who, in 1921, published ''Rupert Brooke and Skyros'', a "quiet essay", illustrated with woodcuts by [[Phyllis Gardner (British writer)|Phyllis Gardner]].<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/6th-august-1921/24/rupert-brooke-and-skyros-by-stanley-casson-with-wo | title=Rupert Brooke and Skyros. By Stanley Casson. With woodcut illustrations » 6 Aug 1921 » the Spectator Archive}}</ref>

Brooke's surviving brother, William Alfred Cotterill Brooke, fell in action on the [[Western Front (World War One)|Western Front]] on 14 June 1915 as a [[Subaltern (military)|subaltern]] with the 1/8th (City of London) of the London Regiment ([[Post Office Rifles]]), at the age of 24. He had been in France on active service for nineteen days before his death. His body was buried in Fosse 7 Military Cemetery (Quality Street), [[Mazingarbe]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.1914-18.co.uk/brooke/brookes%20brother%20text.htm |title=RUPERT BROOKE |publisher=1914–18.co.uk}}</ref>

In July 1917, Field Marshal [[Edmund Allenby]] was informed of the death in action of his son Michael Allenby, leading to Allenby's breakdown in tears in public while he recited a poem by Rupert Brooke.