Ferenc Békássy, Rupert Brooke, and Noel Olivier
Ferenc Békássy, Rupert Brooke, and Noel Olivier

Summary/Abstract: On a side wall in King’s College Chapel, Cambridge there is a memorial plaque commemorating all members of the College who died serving in the Great War. The second name is that of Rupert Brooke. On the opposite wall there is a small plaque with just one name on it, that of a young Hungarian who had also been a member of the college, Ferenc Békássy. It was the economist John Maynard Keynes, a close friend of Békássy, who had asked the college to include his name among those commemorated. However, as one of the Fellows of King’s who had lost a son in the fighting objected to this on the grounds that Békássy had died fighting the Allies, the name was carved on a separate wall, near the entrance, in fact giving it far more prominence.

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