| 词条 | Geoffrey Dearmer |
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Geoffrey Dearmer {{post-nominals|country=GBR|LVO}} (21 March 1893 – 18 August 1996) was a British poet. He was the son of Anglican liturgist and hymnologist Percy Dearmer and artist and writer Mabel Dearmer. During World War I, Dearmer was commissioned and served with the London Regiment at Gallipoli and on the Western Front. Many of his poems dealt with the overall brutality of war and violence, to which he was a direct eyewitness. His brother Christopher, a pilot with RNAS, died of wounds in 1915,[1] and his mother Mabel died the same year while serving with an ambulance unit in Serbia. He was appointed a lieutenant in the Royal Victorian Order (LVO).[2] From 1936-1958 he was Examiner of Plays in the Lord Chamberlain's office.[3] Dearmer died at the age of 103. He also wrote the poem called The GiraffeGeoffrey Dearmer Award for new poets was founded in his memory in 1997.{{citation needed|date=August 2017}} References1. ^CWGC entry 2. ^Obituary, The Independent; accessed 31 July 2017. 3. ^{{Cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59148445|title=The Lord Chamberlain's blue pencil|last=Johnston|first=John|date=1990|publisher=Hodder & Stoughton|year=|isbn=0340525290|location=London|pages=265|oclc=59148445}} External links
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