2478 x 3470 px | 21 x 29,4 cm | 8,3 x 11,6 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
20. Juni 2016
Ort:
Place Alan Seeger, Belloy-en-Santerre, Somme, France
Weitere Informationen:
Alan Seeger (22 June 1888 – 4 July 1916) was an American poet who fought and died in World War I during the Battle of the Somme serving in the French Foreign Legion. Seeger was the uncle of American folk singer Pete Seeger, and was a classmate of T.S. Eliot at Harvard. He is most well known for having authored the poem, I Have a Rendezvous with Death, a favorite of President John F. Kennedy. He was killed in action at Belloy-en-Santerre on July 4, 1916, famously cheering on his fellow soldiers in a successful charge after being hit several times by machine gun fire. Camil Campanya i Mas was a Catalan poet also in the French Foreign Legion killed in the same action.
