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* [http://www.webmatters.net/txtpat/?id=108 Robert Gilson] at Webmatters.com | * [http://www.webmatters.net/txtpat/?id=108 Robert Gilson] at Webmatters.com | ||
* [http://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/2014/07/09/wwi-gilson/ | |||
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Lieutenant Robert Quilter Gilson (25 October 1893- 1 July 1916) was a childhood friend of J.R.R. Tolkien. Gilson, Tolkien and Geoffrey Bache Smith attended King Edward's School in Birmingham together, and served in the First World War. He was killed by a shell on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.[1]
External links
- Robert Gilson at Webmatters.com
- [http://trinitycollegelibrarycambridge.wordpress.com/2014/07/09/wwi-gilson/
Robert Quilter Gilson]
