Evelyn Waugh - writer. 1903 - 1966. Served 1939 - 1942.
Educated Lancing and Oxford. Widely acknowledged as the leading satirical novelist of his day. Amongst other works he wrote "Scoop" (1938), and "Put Out More Flags" (1942), and "Brideshead Revisited" (1945). In his military trilogy, "Officers and Gentlemen", "Men at Arms" and "Unconditional Surrender" he draws on his experiences in the Corps, particularly at the fall of Crete in 1941. The Times Literary Supplement says of these latter works "The only piece of fiction about the 1939-1945 War that is certain to survive", while Cyril Connolly in the Sunday Times stated "Unquestionably the finest novel to have come out of the War".