And We Were Young, Colin Pendrill

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"A boy, he spent his boy's dear life for England". These words from a poem of 1916 were written in reaction to the news that a young boy, who had left Oundle School just two years earlier, had shot himself, whilst stranded in the Libyan Desert. With his plane grounded, he took his own life hoping that the meager supply of water they had left might save the life of his mechanic. The young boy was S