Hilaire Belloc bought King's Land (in Shipley, Sussex), 5 acres and a working windmill for £1000 in 1907 and it was his home for the rest of his life. Belloc loved Sussex as few other writers have loved her: he lived there for most of his 83 years, he tramped the length and breadth of the county, slept under her hedgerows, drank in her inns, sailed her coast and her rivers and wrote several incomparable books about her. "He does not die that can bequeath Some influence to the land he knows, Or dares, persistent, interwreath Love permanent with the wild hedgerows; He does not die, but still remains Substantiate with his darling plains."

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Thursday 30 August 2018

Remembering Louis Belloc...


Memorial plaque to him in Cambrai Cathedral

Louis Belloc:

Second Lieutenant, Royal Air Force, 209th Sqdn., and Royal Engineers.

Died on the 26th August 1918 aged 20, bravely dive bombing a German ammunition train.

Commemorated on the Arras Flying Services Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.

Son of Hilaire Belloc and Elodie Agnes Hogan Belloc, of King's Land, Shipley, Horsham, Sussex.
Born 23rd September 1897

Brother: Peter Gilbert Marie Sebastian Belloc (fell in the 1939 - 1945 War).

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