Isaac Rosenberg

Born in Bristol in 1890, died 1st April 1918 in Fampoux. The son of immigrant Lithuanian Jews, he initially served his apprenticeship as an engraver. He then undertook Fine Art studies at the University of London. In 1912, he published the collection of poems, Night and Day. He exhibited his pictorial works in Whitechapel Gallery for the first time in 1914. Mobilised in 1915, he was sent to the Western Front in France in June 1916. Suffering from chronic bronchitis, he was withdrawn from the front on numerous occasions. He returned to the front in 1917 during the Battle of Cambrai. On 1st April 1918, he was killed during a night-time patrol near Fampoux to the north-east of Arras. He was initially buried in a shared grave. His body was identified in 1926 and his grave is in the Saint-Laurent-Blangy cemetery (Pas-de-Calais).