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Drummond Allison (1921- 2 December 1943) was an English war poet of World War II.
He was born in Caterham, Surrey, and educated at Bishop's Stortford College and at Queen's College, Oxford. After Sandhurst training, he became an intelligence officer in the East Surrey Regiment. He served in North Africa and Italy, where he was killed in action fighting on the Garigliano.
* The Yellow Night: Poems 1940-41-42-43 (1944)
* The Poems of Drummond Allison (1978) edited by Michael Sharp
* The Collected Poems of Drummond Allison (1993) edited by Stephen Benson