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Nevil Shute

Nevil Shute Norway was born 17th January at Ealing, London, the youngest of two brothers and the son of a senior civil servant in the General Post Office.

At an early stage it was obvious that his interests lay not in things academic as did his brother's but in things practical, having been caught playing truant from school only to spend his time studying the mechanical exhibits and early flying machines in the Science Museum in South Kensington.

The family moved from London to Dublin in when his father was appointed Secretary to the Post Office in Ireland. Nevil Shute had attended various schools in England including Shrewsbury and it was whilst on holiday from there that he was in Dublin during the Easter uprising in , and acted as a stretcher bearer.

In June, , his older brother Fred had died of wounds in Flanders during WW1. He was quite fatalistic about his future at this stage, having seen many of his seniors at school killed in the fighting in Flanders as well Nevil shute novels.