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The prize-winning poem by Magee centred upon the burial of Brooke's body at 11 o'clock at night in an olive grove on the Greek island of Skyros in April 1915. Whilst at Rugby Magee fell in love with Elinor Lyon, the daughter of P. H. B. Lyon, the headmaster.
He was buried in the church cemetery in the town of Scopwick, England. President Ronald Reagan delivered a television eulogy on January 28, 1986, for the 7 victims of the NASA Space Shuttle Challenger disaster, closing with the words of Magee's poem: "slipped the surly bonds of earth" to "touch the face of God."
May 3, 2015 · Grave of J. G. Magee, Scopwick cemetery. John Gillespie Magee, Jr. (9 June 1922 – 11 December 1941) was an American aviator and poet who died as a result of a mid-air collision over Lincolnshire during World War II. He is most famous for his poem "High Flight".
View Actual Burial Here Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee's beloved WWII aviation poem 'High Flight', written to his mother three months before he was killed, is on a cenotaph for Royal Australian Air Force veteran and commercial pilot, Kenneth Clinton Dudley Lockyer 111770183
- Blinman, South Australia
- June 9, 1922
- Shanghai, Shanghai Municipality, China
On 11 December 1941, in his 10th week of active service, 19 year-old P/O John Gillespie Magee, RCAF, was killed while flying a Spitfire VZ-H (Serial No. AD291). He had taken off in the late morning with other members of No. 412 Squadron from RAF Wellingore to practise air fighting tactics.
Aug 18, 2016 · Tragically, just a few months after writing High Flight, Magee was killed in a mid-air collision over Lincolnshire. He was buried there at Scopwick Cemetery, near Digby, and the first and...
Jan 10, 2024 · John’s poet dramatized Brooke’s burial in an olive grove on the Greek Island of Skyros, after succumbing to illness in April 1915. John would continue writing prose and verse for the rest of his life.
