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- Roland_Leighton abstract "Roland Aubrey Leighton (27 March 1895 – 23 December 1915) was a British poet and soldier, immortalised in Vera Brittain's memoir, Testament of Youth.His parents, Robert Leighton and Marie Connor, were both writers. Leighton was a pupil at Uppingham School, where he became a close friend of Vera Brittain's brother, Edward. Leaving Uppingham in July 1914, Roland was awarded the Classical Postmastership at Merton College, Oxford but the War broke out before he took his place. He obtained a commission in the Norfolk Regiment and served with the Worcestershire Regiment in France. He died of wounds on 23 December 1915 at the age of twenty (although his gravestone incorrectly states that he was 19), having been shot by a sniper through the stomach while inspecting wire in front of a trench, and is buried in the military cemetery at Louvencourt, near Doullens, France. Brittain biographer Mark Bostridge has reported that Leighton's grave is often covered by violets in tribute to a poem he wrote for her.Although Leighton never took up his place at Merton College, his name is on the war memorial there.Vera Brittain, who had accepted his proposal of marriage four months before his death, was to portray him and quote some of his work in her writing at the time, and later in Testament of Youth. Many of Leighton's letters are included in Letters from a Lost Generation, a compilation of her wartime letters, edited by Alan Bishop and Mark Bostridge, published in 1998. His mother anonymously published a memoir of him called Boy of My Heart in 1916. Vera Britain's "Chronicle of Youth", which contains her diaries 1913-1917, includes entries about Roland Leighton and their relationship and excerpts from his letters from the battlefield.In the 1979 TV adaptation of Testament of Youth Roland was played by Peter Woodward. The role was taken by Rupert Graves in the 1998 BBC Radio 4 adaptation of Letters from a Lost Generation and by Christian Brassington in BBC 1's documentary Vera Brittain: A Woman in Love and War in 2008. In the forthcoming feature film of Testament of Youth Kit Harington is to co-star as Roland Leighton with Alicia Vikander as Vera Brittain.Roland's younger sister was the artist Clare Leighton.".
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- Roland_Leighton comment "Roland Aubrey Leighton (27 March 1895 – 23 December 1915) was a British poet and soldier, immortalised in Vera Brittain's memoir, Testament of Youth.His parents, Robert Leighton and Marie Connor, were both writers. Leighton was a pupil at Uppingham School, where he became a close friend of Vera Brittain's brother, Edward. Leaving Uppingham in July 1914, Roland was awarded the Classical Postmastership at Merton College, Oxford but the War broke out before he took his place.".
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