biography
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| male
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| lived:
| (1915–44)
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| biography:
| Writer, born in Cwmaman, Rhondda Cynon Taff, S Wales, UK. He studied at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth, and at Manchester. A lieutenant in the army, his first work, a volume of short stories about army life, was The Last Inspection (1942), followed by a volume of poetry. He died of gunshot wounds at Chittagong during the Burma campaign. Another volume of verse, Ha! Ha! Among the Trumpets, was published posthumously in 1945, followed by a collection of short stories and letters, In the Green Tree (1948). |
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