Patrick Houston Shaw-Stewart was a British scholar and poet of the Edwardian era who died on active service as a battalion commander in the Royal Naval Division during the First World War.
14 Facts About Patrick Shaw-Stewart
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Patrick Shaw-Stewart is best remembered today for his "Achilles in the Trench", one of the best-known war poems of the First World War.
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Patrick Shaw-Stewart was born in Aber Artro Hall, near Llanbedr in Merionethshire, Wales.
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Patrick Shaw-Stewart was the son of Major-General John Heron Maxwell Shaw-Stewart, a military engineer, and Mary Catherine Bedingfeld Shaw-Stewart.
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Patrick Shaw-Stewart's appearance was quite striking with a shock of bright ginger hair, pale white freckled skin, and a lengthy nose.
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Patrick Shaw-Stewart's career was one of great academic brilliance, matched by a steely determination to succeed.
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Patrick Shaw-Stewart came first in the Eton scholarship in 1901, a year after his friend, Ronald Knox, had come first in the same examination.
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Patrick Shaw-Stewart won the Newcastle Scholarship at Eton in 1905.
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Patrick Shaw-Stewart became a leading member of her "corrupt coterie" known as the Coterie.
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Patrick Shaw-Stewart was present at Brooke's burial on Skyros and commanded the firing party.
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Patrick Shaw-Stewart now used all his charm and influence in high places to get into the firing line.
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Patrick Shaw-Stewart was involved in the Gallipoli campaign, which was his first experience of real combat.
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Patrick Shaw-Stewart is buried at Metz-en-Couture in the British extension to the communal cemetery.
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Patrick Shaw-Stewart is named on the war memorial in the antechapel at All Souls College, Oxford and on the Knockbain parish war memorial in the county of Ross and Cromarty, Scotland.