Roland Leighton (1895-1915), the British poet who declined a place at Merton College, Oxford, in order to join the war effort in 1914 & converted to Catholicism while at the front; forever immortalized in the writings of his fiancée, Vera Brittain, especially Testament of Youth & Letters from a Lost Generation; killed by a German sniper on 23 December 1915.
Commentary: Leighton was born on 27 March 1895 & died on 23 December 1915, at age twenty. His gravestone (above) incorrectly gives his age as nineteen. (Below) Leighton, played by Kit Harrington.
Lest we forget.
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