Possible Clues:

• Very needy
• Destitute, one tending to wander
• Poor language principal has avoided, well-bred chap
• Ending it badly without a penny to one's name
• Poor country deserted by last fellow
• Impoverished country lacking a good part of hospital
• Impoverished — ending it (anag)
• Needy US soldier turned up, splitting in depression
• Country without a man that's impoverished
• In this I'd get back to the poor chap