(1893-1944)
Robert Nichols was an English poet and playwright often referred to as one of the First World War ‘war poets’. He was born on the Isle of Wight in East Mount, Shanklin, and was baptised in the village at St Saviour on the Cliff. Nichols’ poem ‘The Burial in Flanders’ is celebrated as one of the greatest poems about homosexuality of the era.
