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William Robert Gregory MC (20 May 1881 – 23 January 1918) was an Irish flying ace who served as a fighter pilot with the Royal Flying Corps during World War I. He was also an accomplished artist and cricket player. His death was memorialised in a series of poems by W. B. Yeats.
Gregory is the personification of the Irishman caught in a no man’s land of competing allegiances. It is not patriotic duty that compels the Irish airman to risk his...
On 2 February 1918, a day after she heard that her only son had died while flying with his squadron on the Italian front, Lady Gregory wrote briefly to W.B. Yeats: ‘The long dreaded telegram has come – Robert has been killed in action. …. It is very hard to bear.’.
Learn about the life and death of Robert Gregory, the most famous Irish aviator of the First World War, and his comrades James McCudden and Edward Mannock. Discover how they fought and died in the skies over France and Italy, and how they were remembered by Yeats and others.
6 de ene. de 2018 · Major Robert Gregory, the only son of Yeats's long-time patron, Lady Gregory of Coole Park, Gort, Co Galway, died when his Royal Flying Corps aircraft crashed on the Italian front on 23 January...
In February 1918, Robert Gregory, a major in the British air force, died while fighting in battle over Italy. In the eyes of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats, Robert Gregory was a fine, young, Renaissance man, whom he described as a “soldier, scholar, horseman.”
“In Memory” celebrates Robert as a latter-day Renaissance man and leads to a cathartic closure, in which words are acknowledged as inadequate to fully express the burden of sorrowful feeling. Gregory termed it Robert’s “monument.”
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