- Born
- Died
- Birth nameFrancis Edward Ledwidge
- Nickname
- Poet of the Blackbirds
- Francis Ledwidge was born on August 19, 1887 in Janeville, Ireland. He was a writer, known for Scope (1972). He died on July 31, 1917 in Passendale, Belgium.
- Killed in action at the Battle of Passendale (aka the Third Battle of Ypres) during World War I.
- Pictured on a 1-euro Irish commemorative postage stamp issued 27 July 2017.
- Irish poet.
- Interred in Artillery Wood Cemetery, Boezinge, Arrondissement Ieper, West Flanders (West-Vlaanderen), Belgium.
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