Keith Douglas

Keith Douglas
BornKeith Castellain Douglas
(1920-01-24)24 January 1920
Tunbridge Wells, Kent, England
Died9 June 1944(1944-06-09) (aged 24)
near Bayeux, Normandy, German-occupied France
Resting placeTilly-sur-Seulles War Cemetery, Calvados, France
OccupationPoet
LanguageEnglish
NationalityBritish
Alma materMerton College, Oxford

Keith Castellain Douglas (24 January 1920 – 9 June 1944) was an English poet and soldier 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.