Word: quilter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...outbreak of World War I he joined the Naval Division, and thinking that he would probably get killed, married Gwen Quilter. This, he reasoned, gave him as much happiness as he deserved, and her a reasonable chance of escape. And he very nearly did get killed in Gallipoli by the worst of deaths, dysentery. He recorded this campaign in his lightest verse, laffing at his miseries and terrors...