A Gurney Timeline
(to be completed)
1890
- 28th August - Ivor Gurney is born at 3 Queen Street, Gloucester
1904
- Gurney begins composing music
1908
- Easter - First extant verse; a book inscription to Alfred Cheesman
1911
- Wins a scholarship to study composition at the Royal College of Music
1913
- Beginning to seriously write poetry
1914
- January - Completes his first musical masterpiece: the Five Elizabethan Songs
- August - volunteers for military service but is rejected on account of his eyesight
- October - takes position of organist at Christ Church, Crendon Street, High Wycombe
1915
- February - Volunteers once more for military service and is drafted into the 5th Gloucester Reserve Battalion
- Army training at Northampton, Chelmsford and Epping
1917
- 7 April (Good Friday) - Wounded: shot in the arm, and sent to hospital at Rouen
- 10 September - Gurney is gassed at St. Julien and invalided home to Blighty
- November - Gurney's first collection of poems, Severn & Somme, is published by Sidgwick and Jackson
1918
- June - Sends suicide note to his family, to Marion Scott and to Hubert Parry, but is unable to go through with the act
- 24 July - Moved from the Lord Derby War Hospital, Warrington, to the Middlesex War Hospital, Napsbury, St. Albans
- 4 October - Discharged from the army, being deemed physically unfit for active service, with a pension of 8/3 per week
1922
- Living with his Aunt Marie at 1 Westfield Terrace, Longford, Gloucester
- 22 September - Committed to Barnwood House, Gloucester
- 21 December - Moved to the City of London Mental Hospital, Dartford, Kent
1927
- January - Gurney writes his last extant piece of music: Si j'etais roi for solo piano
- May - Gurney turns to writing essays, it being too painful to write music or poetry
1929
- March - writes his last extant poem, The Wind, signed 'Valentine Fane'
1937
- 26 December - Ivor Gurney dies at Dartford on Boxing Day, of tubercolosis
- 31 December - Buried at Twigworth, Gloucestershire
