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Roland Leighton
Born27 March 1895
Died23 December 1915(1915-12-23) (aged 20)
Military career
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service/branchBritish Army
Years of service1914–1915
RankLieutenant
UnitNorfolk Regiment
Worcestershire Regiment
Battles/warsFirst World War

Roland Aubrey Leighton (27 March 1895 – 23 December 1915) was a British poet and soldier, made posthumously famous by his fiancée Vera Brittain's memoir, Testament of Youth.[1]

  1. ^ "The Roland Leighton Collection". The First World War Poetry Digital Archive. Retrieved 19 March 2017.

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Testament of Youth

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loss of young men close to her: brother Edward Brittain, her fiancé Roland Leighton, and her friends Victor Richardson and Geoffrey Thurlow. The narrative...

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Clare Marie Veronica Leighton, sometimes Clara Ellaline Hope Leighton or Clare Veronica Hope Leighton, (12 April 1898 – 4 November 1989) was an English–American...

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Edward Brittain

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was educated at Uppingham School, where he made two close friends, Roland Leighton and Victor Richardson. Brittain was a good student, though seldom a...

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Christian Brassington

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film Easy Virtue Phillip Hurst A Woman in Love and War: Vera Brittain Roland Leighton Television film documentary 2009 When Boris Met Dave Boris Johnson...

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Mark Bostridge

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Four series starring Amanda Root as Brittain and Rupert Graves as Roland Leighton, who was killed in the First World War. Bostridge's Lives For Sale...

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Uppingham School

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built in their memory. Uppingham had been attended by Edward Brittain, Roland Leighton and Victor Richardson who were immortalised in Vera Brittain's memoir...

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List of biographical films

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Louvencourt

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department in Hauts-de-France in northern France. Vera Brittain's fiancée Roland Leighton is buried in the Louvencourt commonwealth war cemetery Louvencourt...

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1973) 1894 – René Fonck, French colonel and pilot (d. 1953) 1895 – Roland Leighton, English soldier and poet (d. 1915) 1897 – Douglas Hartree, English...

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Leighton Park School

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Leighton Park School is a co-educational private school for both day and boarding pupils in Reading in South East England. The school's ethos is closely...

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Roland Penrose

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Lionel Penrose. Roland grew up in a strict Quaker family in Watford and attended The Downs School, Colwall, Herefordshire, and then Leighton Park School,...

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Tarusuke Shingaki

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June 1917

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and passing in her memoir Testament of Youth, along with her fiancé Roland Leighton, who was killed in action in 1915. The Persian political magazine Jangal...

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List of Sofia the First characters

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Winter) is a village girl who became a princess after her mother married King Roland II. Sofia is a mix ethnic-nationalities: Galdiz (similar to Spain) her mother's...

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