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Bevil Quiller-Couch

British Army officer and letter writer · Lived 1890 to 1919 · aged 29

Major Bevil Bryan Quiller-Couch MC was a decorated British Army officer who served continuously in Flanders and France from August 1914 to 1918. He was the son of the Cornish writer, Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch of Fowey, Cornwall.

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He was engaged to the war poet, May Wedderburn Cannan, but he died before they could be married. A book of his letters was published in 2002. The book was also made into a radio play by the BBC.

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Lived 1890 to 1919 · aged 29