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'The Soldier' by Rupert Brooke (introduction and poem)
A dramatic reading of the poem 'The Soldier' by Rupert Brooke. A vicar begins reciting the poem to his church congregation, before the dramatisation shifts to Rupert Brooke dying from blood poisoning on board a ship bound for the Dardanelles.
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