War Service
Moeran spent most of the World War I as a despatch rider but this ended when he was wounded at Bullecourt in 1917. After recovering from his injuries, he did not return to the front.
After the war he returned for a few months to Uppingham School, where he was employed as a teacher of music. This role did not satisfy him and he returned to the Royal College of Music to resume his composition studies, now with John Ireland, who had been a pupil of Moeran's earlier teacher Charles Villiers Stanford.
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