biography
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Service, Robert W(illiam)
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| lived:
| (1874–1958)
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| biography:
| Poet, born in Preston, Lancashire, NW England, UK. He emigrated to Canada in 1894, travelled as a reporter for the Toronto Star, and served as an ambulance driver in World War 1. Known as ‘the Canadian Kipling’, he wrote popular ballads, such as ‘Rhymes of a Rolling Stone’ (1912) and ‘The Shooting of Dan McGrew’. He also wrote novels, of which Ploughman of the Moon (1945) and Harper of Heaven (1948) are autobiographical. |
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