I lived from 1888-1917. I was from England, and am in the English category.
Patrick Shaw Stewart was born in 1888, the son of a Major-General and educated at Eton and Balliol College in Oxford. Rupert Brooke, a close friend described him as ‘The most brilliant man they’ve had in Oxford for 10 years” [Patrick was with Rupert Brooke when he died in 1915]. He fought at Gallipoli, where he is known to have written a letter home: “ I continue to believe that the luck of my generation must change…nowadays, we who are alive have the sense of being old, old survivors”. He was killed in action in 1917, having refused to return after having his ear torn off by flying shrapnel a few minutes earlier.
