Henry Lionel Field (1894 – 1916) – British soldier poet and artist

Quite a few of the WW1 poets were also artists.

Henry was born on 2nd May 1894. Educated at Marlborough College, he went on to study art at Birmingham School of Art.  He joined the 6th Battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment as a Second Lieutenant in September 1914 and was sent to the Western Front in February 1916.

Hentry was killed on the first day of the Somme Offensive – 1st July 1916 – and is buried in Serre Road Cemetery No. 2, Beaumont Hamel et Hébuterne, Somme, Nord Pas de Calais, France.

His poetry collection “Poems and Drawings” was published by Cornish, Birningham in 1917.  One of his poems was included in the anthology “The Valiant Muse”, edited by F.W. Ziv and published by Putnam, New York, in 1936.

https://forgottenpoetsofww1.blogspot.com/2018/12/henry-lionel-field-1894-1916-british.html

Henry Lionel Field featured in the exhibition “Poets, Writers and Artists on The Somme, 1916”, held at The Wilfred Owen Story in Birkenhead, Wirral in 2016.  There is a book of the exhibition panels available via Amazon:  http://www.poshupnorth.com/2016/06/the-somme-1916-available-1st-july-pre.html

A sketch from Lionel's book: