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Born 1895; educated at Rokeby, Charterhouse and St John's College, Oxford; served in World War One, 1914-1918; commissioned into 3 (Reserve) Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1914; attached to 2 Bn, Welch Regt, 1 Div, Western Front, 1915; Lt, 1915; served with 2 Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 19 Bde, 2 Div, Battle of Loos, France, 1915; Capt, 1915; service with 1 Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1915-1916; wounded serving with 2 Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 19 Bde, 33 Div, High Wood, Battle of the Somme, Picardy, France, 1916; poet and writer, 1917-1985; posted to 2 Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers, Western Front, 1918; served with Wadham College Company, 4 Officer Cadet Bn, Oxford, 1918; service with 3 (Reserve) Garrison Bn, Royal Welch Fusiliers, 1918-1919; demobilised, 1919; graduated from St John's College, Oxford as a Bachelor of Letters, 1925; Professor of English Literature, Royal Egyptian University, Cairo, Egypt, 1926; moved permanently to Majorca, 1929; Clarke Lecturer at Trinity College, Cambridge, 1954; awarded Gold Medal of the National Poetry Society of America, 1960; Arthur Dehon Little Memorial Lecturer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, 1963; Professor of Poetry, University of Oxford, 1961-1966; awarded Gold Medal for Poetry, Cultural Olympics, Mexico, 1968; awarded Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry, 1968; elected Honorary Fellow, St John's College, Oxford, 1971; died 1985.Publications: Refer to A bibliography of the writings of Robert Graves by Fred Hall Higginson, Second Edition revised by William Proctor Williams (St Paul's Bibliographies, Winchester, 1987).