Julian Grenfell

Julian Grenfell (1888–1915) was the eldest son of William Grenfell, later Lord Desborough. He was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, and in 1910 took a commission in the Royal Dragoons, serving with the regiment in South Africa and India before the First World War.

He went to France in October 1914 and won the Distinguished Service Order for his daring as a scout and sniper. Wounded by a shell splinter near Ypres on 13 May 1915, he died at Boulogne on 26 May.

His poem 'Into Battle', written in Flanders in April 1915, was printed in The Times the day after his death, and became one of the most quoted poems of the war.