A Lap Full of Seed: 'For every dream that lives in , Time or Eternity makes true''

Mark Plowman, but known as Max Plowman, was born in Northumberland Park, Tottenham, Middlesex on 1st September 1883.

At 16 he left school and took up a position with his father’s brick business before becoming a journalist and poet.

Politically Plowman was opposed to fighting in the war and embraced pacifist beliefs. He called it "insane and unmitigated filth" but despite his stance, and his marriage earlier in the year to Dorothy Lloyd Sulman, on Christmas Eve 1914 he reluctantly volunteer...