Isaac Rosenberg
November 25: IR born in Bristol, the eldest son and second child of Barnett and Anna Rosenberg.
Family moves to London. RI enrolls at St. Paul's School, Wellclose Square, St George's-in-the-East.
Family moves to Stepney.
RI begins special afternoon classes at the Stepney Green Art School.
RI Joins Carl Hentschel's, Engravers, of Fleet Street, as an apprentice.
RI starts evening classes at both the London School of Photo-Engraving and Lithography and Birkbeck College for Art.
Wins the Mason prize for nude studies.
Wins the Pocock prize for a nude in oils.
Apprenticed to Mr. Lascelles, a process engraver in London.
Accepted into the Slade School of Art.
RI's review of the J. H. Amschewitz/Henry Ospovat Exhibition at the Baillie Galleries is printed in The Jewish Chronicle.
Night and Day, a 24-page pamphlet of IR poems, is printed.
His painting "Joy" wins First Class Certificate at Slade. New English Art Club exhibits and sells his "Sanguine Drawing."
IR leaves Slade. Seeks treatment (paid for by J.E.A.S.) for eye trouble.
Health begins to deteriorate. Moves back with his family for care.
Coughing and lungs worsen. Requests funds (""£12 or £15") of J.E.A.S. for passage to South Africa for health reasons. Granted.
Exhibits at Whitechapel Art Gallery's Exhibition of Twentieth Century Artists.
Sails for South Africa. Reaches Cape Town by the end of June, stays with his sister Minnie. Lectures at the studio of Madge Cook, daughter of Mrs. Agnes Cook, editor of South African Women in Council, who later publishes the lecture in two parts, with his poems "Beauty" and "Our Dead Heroes."
Sets sail for England. Loses most of his paintings overboard in Cape Town harbor.
Back in London, starts evening classes in block-making, in the hope of getting a job. No luck.
In October, enlists and is sent to the Bantam Battalion of 12th Suffolk Regiment, 40th Division.
RI is transferred to two different regiments before he leaves for France in June.
Sent to the trenches in August
In September, sends "Break of Day in the Trenches" to Harriet Monroe of Poetry.
In December, Poetry publishes "Marching" and "Break of Day in the Trenches."
IR is reassigned twice, first off the line then back on again.
7 February: Transferred to 1st Battalion K.O.R.L., 40th Div.
21 March: Recalled to trenches.
1 April: Private I. Rosenberg, 22311 1st K.O.R.L., is killed at dawn while on night patrol.
But pained them not, though their bones crunched,
Their shut mouths made no moan.
They lie there huddled, friend and foeman,
Man born of man, and born of woman,
And shells go crying over them
From night till night and now.