Frederick Septimus Kelly Frederick Septimus Kelly ( 29 May 1881 – 13 November 1916 ) was an Australian and British musician and composer and a rower who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics . He was killed in action during the First World War . Early life . Kelly , the fourth son of Irish - born woolbroker Thomas Herbert Kelly and his native - born wife Mary Anne , née Dick , was born in 1881 at 47 Phillip Street , Sydney , Australia . He was educated at Sydney Grammar School then sent to England and educated at Eton College , where he stroked the school eight to victory in the Ladies ' Challenge Plate at Henley Royal Regatta in 1899 . Kelly was awarded a Lewis Nettleship musical scholarship at Oxford in this year , and went up to Balliol College , Oxford ( B . A . , 1903 ; Master , 1912 ) , became president of the university musical club and a leading spirit at the Sunday evening concerts at Balliol . He was a protégé of Ernest Walker . Rowing . Kelly took up sculling while at Oxford and won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley in 1902 , beating Raymond Etherington - Smith in the final . He rowed in the four seat for Oxford against Cambridge in the 1903 Boat Race . Oxford lost the race by 6 lengths . Kelly went on to win the Diamond sculls at Henley again that summer , beating Jack Beresford in the final . He also won the Wingfield Sculls , the Amateur Championship of the Thames , beating the holder Arthur Cloutte . This was the only occasion on which he entered . On leaving Oxford in 1903 he starting rowing at Leander Club and was in the Leander crews which won the Grand Challenge Cup at Henley in 1903 , 1904 and 1905 and the Stewards ' Challenge Cup in 1906 . In 1905 he again won the Diamond sculls , beating Harry Blackstaffe . His time on this occasion 8 min . 10 sec . stood as a record for over 30 years . Kelly ' s last appearance in a racing boat was in 1908 , when he competed at the London Olympic Games . He was a member of the Leander crew in the eights , which won the gold medal for Great Britain rowing at the 1908 Summer Olympics . Contemporary reports of Kelly ' s oarsmanship were glowing : ' his natural sense of poise and rhythm made his boat a live thing under him ' . In his book " stating that " Many think [ Kelly ] the greatest amateur stylist of all time " . Hands and arms . In 1907 Kelly became worried about problems with his hands and his arms that were impeding his performance , especially as a musician . He sought hypnotherapeutic treatment for this condition from J . Milne Bramwell , the specialist medical hypnotist , in London . He attended Bramwell ' s rooms for treatment over an extended time . Life after Oxford . After leaving Oxford with fourth - class honours in history , Kelly studied the piano under Iwan Knorr at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt , and on his return to London acted as an adviser to the Classical Concert Society and used his influence in favour of the recognition of modern composers . In 1911 he visited Sydney and gave some concerts , and in 1912 took part in chamber music concerts in London . Following the outbreak of war in 1914 , Kelly was commissioned into the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve for service with the Royal Naval Division with his friends — the poet Rupert Brooke , the critic and composer William Denis Browne , and others of what became known as the Latin Club . Kelly was wounded twice at Gallipoli , where he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross and reached the rank of lieutenant - commander . At Gallipoli he wrote his scores in his tent at base camp , including his tribute to Brooke , " Elegy for String Orchestra : " In Memoriam Rupert Brooke " " ( 1915 ) , conceived in the wake of Brooke ' s death . Kelly was among the party who buried him on Skyros . The following is a description of Kelly ' s close connection to Brooke , taken from " Race Against Time : the Diaries of F . S . Kelly " : Kelly survived the Gallipoli slaughter , only to die at Beaucourt - sur - l ' Ancre , France , when rushing a German machine gun post in the last days of the Battle of the Somme in November 1916 . He lies in Martinsart ' s British Cemetery not far from where he fell at the age of 35 . At the memorial concert held at the Wigmore Hall , London , on 2 May 1919 , some of his piano compositions were played by Leonard Borwick , and some of his songs were sung by Muriel Foster ; but his " Elegy for String Orchestra " , written at Gallipoli in memory of Rupert Brooke , a work of profound feeling , stood out from his other compositions , and made a deep impression . His papers are held in the National Library of Australia . Kelly ' s " Serenade for Flute " with accompaniment of Harp , Horn , and String Orchestra ( opus 7 ) , written in 1911 has received its first recording 100 years after he composed it . It made a deep impression on the Canadian flautist Rebecca Hall , who recorded it for CD label Cameo Classics . José Garcia Gutierrez was the horn soloist , with the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by its Musical Director , Michael Laus . The CD ( CC9032CD ) also features orchestral compositions by Kelly ' s near contemporary British composers - Robin Milford , Walter Gaze Cooper , Josef Holbrooke , and Maurice Blower - and is available on line from www . cameo - classics . com Unmarried , he had lived at his home Bisham Grange , near Marlow , Buckinghamshire , with his sister Mary ( Maisie ) . There is a memorial to him in the village of Bisham . His elder brother William Henry Kelly was a politician who held the seat of Wentworth in the Australian House of Representatives from 1903 to 1919 .