Famous Gravesites and Epitaphs English Poet Rupert Brooke

About the final resting place of poet Rupert Brooke including location, gravestone description and epitaph.

WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

RUPERT BROOKE, English soldier-poet, 1887-1915

Where Buried: Island of Skyros in the Aegean Sea.

Gravestone: A cairn of pink and white marble stones, with a cross at both ends of grave.

Epitaph: On the larger of the two crosses: "Here Lies the Servant of God Sub-Lieutenant in the English Navy Who Died for the Deliverance of Constantinople from the Turks."

Amen: In 1916 the rock cairn and crosses were replaced with a marble slab.