Keith Douglas

Keith Douglas

January 24, 1920 – June 09, 1944
Place of Birth: Tunbridge Wells, Kent
Place of Death: Normandy, France

Keith Castellain Douglas (24 January 1920 – 9 June 1944) was an English poet noted for his war poetry during the Second World War and his wry memoir of the Western Desert campaign, Alamein to Zem Zem. He was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy.