Piney Copse is 1.7 ha of woodland located approximately 450 m east of Gomshall railway station and north of the Surrey village of Abinger Hammer.
 The copse is bisected by a public footpath.
 It was once owned by E. M. Forster, who used to live nearby and purchased the wood using funds from book sales - principally from "A Passage to India" - in order to prevent it from being developed into housing.
 When Forster died in 1970, he transferred ownership of the land in his will to the National Trust.
 In 1926 Forster wrote a short essay about Piney Copse in "Abinger Harvest", entitled "My Wood".
The Thälmann Battalion was a battalion of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War.
 It was named after the imprisoned German communist leader Ernst Thälmann (born 16 April 1886, executed 18 August 1944) and included approximately 1,500 people, mainly Germans, Austrians, Swiss and Scandinavians.
 The battalion fought in the defence of Madrid.
 Amongst the commanders of the battalion were the German writer, historian and World War I officer Ludwig Renn (later Chief of Staff of the XI International Brigade) and Prussian World War I officer Hans Kahle, later promoted to lead the Republican 45th division for a time.
 The battalion, like the International Brigades in general, also attracted its share of intellectuals, such as the well-known writer Willi Bredel who became its commissar.
Ludwig Renn (22 April 1889 in Dresden – 21 July 1979 in Berlin) was a German author.
 Born a Saxon nobleman, he later became a committed communist and lived in East Berlin.
Maurice is a novel by E. M. Forster.
 A tale of same-sex love in early 20th-century England, it follows Maurice Hall from his schooldays, through university and beyond.
 It was written in 1913–1914, and revised in 1932 and 1959–1960.
 Although it was shown to selected friends, such as Christopher Isherwood, it was only published in 1971 after Forster's death.
 Forster did not seek to publish it during his lifetime, believing it unpublishable during that period.
USS "Forster" (DE-334) was launched 13 November 1943 by Consolidated Steel Corporation, Orange, Texas; sponsored by Mrs. E. W. Forster, widow of Machinist Edward W. Forster, who was killed in action during the Battle of Savo Island, 9 August 1942 with the sinking of USS "Vincennes" .
 "Forster" was commissioned 25 January 1944 and served as an escort in the Atlantic and Mediterranean during World War II.
 She was decommissioned and placed in reserve at Green Cove Springs, Florida on 15 June 1946.
Edward Morgan Forster (1 January 18797 June 1970), known as E. M. Forster, was an English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist.
 Many of his novels examined class difference and hypocrisy in early 20th-century British society, notably "A Room with a View" (1908), "Howards End" (1910), and "A Passage to India" (1924), which brought him his greatest success.
 He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature in 16 different years.
The McMillan Woods CCC camp was Civilian Conservation Corps camp NP-2 on the Gettysburg Battlefield planned in September 1933  near CCC Camp Renaissance in Pitzer Woods (camp NP-1).
 Captain Francis J. Moran moved from Camp Renaissance to become the new camp NP-2 commander in October 1933 (supervisors under Superintendent Farrell included Charles Heilman in 1936, and Major Renn Lawrence was the 1937 CCC sub-district commander.)
 The camp opened a new recreation hall in 1934  and provided manpower for building the veterans camp for the 1938 Gettysburg reunion, and about 50 enrollees of CCC Company #1355-C served as aides for unaccompanied veterans.
 During the reunion, Company F of the 34th Infantry used the CCC camp and had a headquarters office under Major C. Gilchrist (executive officer of the "regular army camp") and Capt. E. E. Wright.
 Captain Frederick L. Slade was the CCC commander on April 1, 1939.
Philip Whichelo (1905–1989) was a British painter and set designer.
 He lived in Putney, a district in south-west London, England, located in the London Borough of Wandsworth.
 He was the maternal cousin of the renowned English writer and librettist, Edward Morgan Forster.
 Letters between Philip Whichelo and E. M. Forster survive in ‘’The Papers of Edward Morgan Forster’’ held at King's College Archive Centre, Cambridge, which includes correspondence between the two, as well as family postcards.
 Philip Whichelo is recorded as having donated a portrait of E. M. Forster to the Gay and Lesbian Humanist Association.
Howards End is a 1992 British romantic drama film based upon the novel of the same name by E. M. Forster (published in 1910), a story of class relations in turn-of-the-20th-century England.
 The film—produced by Merchant Ivory Productions as their third adaptation of a Forster novel (following "A Room with a View" in 1985 and "Maurice" in 1987)—was the first film to be released by Sony Pictures Classics.
 The screenplay was written by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, directed by James Ivory and produced by Ismail Merchant.
The E. M. Forster Award is a $20,000 award given annually to an Irish or British writer to fund a period of travel in the United States.
 The award, named after the English novelist E. M. Forster, is administered by the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
 Academy members nominate authors and winners are selected by a rotating committee.

Question: Were E. M. Forster and Ludwig Renn both from England?
Answer: no