Byron's Collection Returned to Library in UK After Over 100 Years

In the county of Carmarthenshire in the United Kingdom, a man returned a book borrowed before the First World War to a school library. The copy of The Poetry of Byron returned to the library more than a century late, The Guardian reports.

Inside the blue cloth-bound book is the name of the borrower - Leonard Ewbank - and the date he was given the book - 25 September 1911.

Ewbank was born in 1893. He attended St Bees School, near Whitehaven, Cumbria, between 1902 and 1911. He later went on to study at King's College, Oxford.

Records show that, despite his poor eyesight, he was recruited into the 15th Borderers in 1915 to fight in the First World War. On 23 February 1916, he was killed in action by a bullet to the head. He was buried in Belgium.

As The Gaze previously reported, a similar incident occurred in May in Finland. A book borrowed back in 1939 was returned to the central library in Helsinki 84 years late. It was a Finnish translation of Arthur Conan Doyle's historical novel The Refugees.