Patrick Houston Shaw-stewart

Lieut-Commander

Service No. Unknown

METZ-EN-COUTURE COMMUNAL CEMETERY BRITISH EXTENSION

Pas de Calais, France

Chevalier of the Legion of Honour. Croix De Guerre (France). Son of Maj. Gen. John Heron Maxwell Shaw Stewart and Mary Catherine Bedingfeld Shaw Stewart. A poet of the first war, Shaw-Stewart was educated at Eton and Balliol College, Oxford, (with Julian Grenfell, another poet who lost his life in the war). Hertford and Ireland Scholarships; Double First. He was considered by his peers to be brilliant. He fought at Gallipoli and was later killed in France.