In Wounded Fields (4)

If you've read anything by or about Vera Britten (mother of cabinet minister Shirley Williams) you'll know about the brilliant young academic, poet, soldier, Roland Leighton. If you haven't yet, then try Vera's Testament to Youth, which is largely modelled on her all time love for him and the generation lost in world war one.

As my poem suggests there are several interwined mysteries around the short life and the death of this brilliant young man. I'm not going to speculate here but there had ...