Ocupation: Novelist
Life: June 25, 1903 - January 21, 1950
Birthday: June 25
Death: January 21
Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there.
source: The Lion and the Unicorn pt. 1, sec. 4 (1941) SeeWellington 7
topic: War, Battle, Eton, Waterloo, Playing Fields