Portrait and decorations by David Haughton

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


Drummond Allison (1921-43)
Studied at Queen's College, Oxford. Served as intelligence officer with East Surrey Regiment in North Africa and was killed in action between Naples and Rome in 1943. Poems in Poetry from Oxford in Wartime and posthumous The Yellow Night (1944). Michael Sharpe edited The Poems of Drummond Allison in 1978. A Collected Poems of Drummond Allison, edited and introduced by Steve Benson, was published privately in 1994, through Bishop's Stortford College.