Drummond Allison

John Drummond Allison
Born	1921 Caterham, Surrey
Died	2 December 1943 (aged c22) near the Garigliano River, Italy
Buried at	Minturno War Cemetery, Italy
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Rank	Lieutenant
Unit	East Surrey Regiment
Battles/wars	World War II North African Campaign Italian Campaign

(John) Drummond Allison (1921 – 2 December 1943) was an English war poet of World War II.

He was born in Caterham, Surrey, and educated at Bishop's Stortford College and at Queen's College, Oxford. After Sandhurst training, he became an intelligence officer in the East Surrey Regiment. He served in North Africa and Italy, where he was killed in action fighting on the Garigliano. Lieutenant Allison lies in the Minturno War Cemetery^[1].

Works

• The Yellow Night: Poems 1940-41-42-43 (1944)
• The Poems of Drummond Allison (1978) edited by Michael Sharp
• The Collected Poems of Drummond Allison (1993) edited by Stephen Benson

Notes

1. ^ CWGC casualty details

References

• Drummond Allison: Come, Let Us Pity Death, by Ross Davies (London:Cecil Woolf Publishers) ISBN 978-1-897967-91-1.

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Name	Allison, Drummond
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Date of birth	1921
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Date of death	2 December 1943
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