Page:For remembrance, soldier poets who have fallen in the war, Adcock, 1920.djvu/124

90

This was written when he was leaving the Army after the Boer War, and 'the others' were five of the officers who had been through the South African campaign with him. Three of the five died, as he died, in the Great War. At the end of his book is a fist of fourteen of his friends, followers of the Hertfordshire Hunt, who also followed him to death in France.

With one or two exceptions Bernard Charles de Boismaison White's poems date from before the war. Born at Harlesden in 1886, on his father's side, says a memoir by de V. Payen-Payne, he was connected with the French family of de Boismaison,