Artillery Wood CWGC Cemetery, Boezinge, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium

Biography

Born on August 19, 1891, in Slane, Ireland, Francis Ledwidge left school when twelve years old to work on a farm, on the roads, and in the mines. Before he entered World War I in October 1914 in the 5th battalion of the Royal Inniskillings, Ledwidge published verse in the Drogheda Independent.