Alun Lewis

Alun Lewis was born on 1 July 1915 in Cwmaman, near Aberdare, in a mining valley of south Wales, the son of a schoolteacher who became the district's director of education. A scholarship boy, he studied history at Aberystwyth and then at Manchester, taught in a school in the south, and joined the engineers in May 1940 despite pacifist convictions from which he never departed. He married in 1941, served in a Welsh battalion, and left for India at the end of 1942 and then for Burma. He died on 5 March 1944, at twenty-eight, of a gunshot wound whose circumstances have never been established.

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• PoetryRaiders' DawnAlun Lewis · 1942Literature