Willoughby Weaving

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(Harry) Willoughby Weaving (1885-1977) was a British First World War writer and poet.

Willoughby Weaving was the son of Harry Walker Weaving, brewer and farmer, of Pewet House, Abingdon. He entered Abingdon School and Pembroke College, Oxford, becoming a schoolmaster at Rockport School and headmaster and proprietor of Elm Park School, Co Armagh. Serving in the Great War in the Royal Irish Rifles, Weaving wrote various war poems, Including:

  • The Dead (1915)
  • Ghosts (1915)
  • Progress (1917)
  • Dies Irae - Day of Wrath (1917)
  • Between the Trenches (1917)
  • Birds in the Trenches (1917)
  • Warrior Months (1917)

Willoughby Weaving's other publications included The Star Fields and other poems (1916), The Bubble and other poems (1917), Heard Melodies (1918), Algazel (1920), Daedal Wings (1920), Ivory Palaces (1931), Spoils of Time (1933), Toys of Eternity (1937), Purple Testament of Bleeding War (1941) and Sonnets: and a few lyrics (1952).

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