- Born
- Died
- Birth nameJohn Christopher Logue
- Nickname
- Greatest War Poet in England
- Christopher Logue was born on November 23, 1926 in Portsmouth, Hampshire, England, UK. He was an actor and writer, known for The Devils (1971), Moonlighting (1982) and Savage Messiah (1972). He was married to Rosemary Hill. He died on December 2, 2011 in London, England, UK.
- SpouseRosemary Hill(1985 - December 2, 2011) (his death)
- He was awarded the Whitbread Poetry Prize in 2005 for his collection titled "Cold Calls".
- He was awarded the C.B.E. (Commander of the Order of the British Empire) in the 2007 Queen's New Years Honors List for his services to literature.
- Son of a postal clerk father and homemaker mother. He trained a toy pistol on a girl in the street and took off with her ice cream. His formal education ended when he was 17 years old and served with the British Army during World War II.
- During World War II, he was stationed in then Palestine (now Israel) where he helped himself to six blank Army pay books-official documents used to record a soldier's pay and establish identity. He boasted idly about selling them. He was court-martialled, and served one-and-a-half years in Acre Central Prison, a 12th-century fortress built by the Crusaders in Galilee.
- He was one of the original signatories of the Committee of 100, a British antiwar group founded in 1960 by Bertrand Russell.
- [on being imprisoned at the Acre Central Prison] It wasn't so different from being at boarding school. In other words, it was bloody awful. It was during that time, though, that I got properly interested in poetry. So it was quite useful in the end.
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