Watercolour painting by James Farrar 1930s-1940s

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Watercolour painting by James Farrar 1930s-1940s

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Special Collections Archives, University of Exeter (GB0029)

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Farrar, James, 1923-1944

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James Farrar (1923-1944), poet and airman, was born on 5 October 1923 at Woodford in Essex, the second son of a father who had served in the Royal Flying Corps in the First World War. He matriculated at fourteen years of age, and soon after began to write poetry and prose. Despite his youth, his work was of an exceptional maturity and skill. Tragically, he was killed in a RAF mosquito aircraft trying to destroy a V1 flying bomb at the end of July 1944. He was twenty years of age. His work was la...