resting_place death_date module monuments nationality article_title birth_date alt notable_works employer name occupation alma_mater
metz-en-couture , france 30 december 1917 yes 1917 rank = lieutenant commander battles = world war i allegiance unit = 63rd -lrb- royal naval -rrb- division = branch = serviceyears = 1914 -- memorial at balliol college chapel , oxford british patrick shaw-stewart
 17 august 1888 picture , looking away from the camera of a woman standing in a crowded street '' achilles in the trench '' -lrb- poem -rrb- barings bank patrick houston shaw-stewart banker balliol college , oxford
patrick shaw-stewart

patrick houston shaw-stewart -lrb- 17 august 1888 -- 30 december 1917 -rrb- was an eton college and oxford scholar and poet of the edwardian era who died on active service as a battalion commander in the british royal naval division during the first world war .
he is best remembered today for his poem `` achilles in the trench '' , one of the best-known war poems of the first world war .
