Patrick Houston Shaw-Stewart (17 August 1888 – 30 December 1917) was an Eton College (1901–1906) and Balliol College, Oxford (1907–1910) scholar and poet of the Edwardian era who died on active service as a battalion commander in the British Royal Naval Division during the First World War. He is best remembered today for his poem Achilles in the Trench, one of the best-known war poems of the First World War.
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17 August 1888 near Llanbedr, Merionethshire, Wales
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30 December 1917 (aged 29) France
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Zodiac | Leo |
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