Robert Quilter Gilson
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Lieutenant Robert Quilter Gilson (25 October 1893 - 1 July 1916) was a childhood friend of J.R.R. Tolkien. Gilson, Tolkien and Geoffrey Bache Smith attended King Edward's School in Birmingham together, and served in the First World War. He was killed by a shell on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.[1]
Actor Patrick Gibson plays him in biographical drama film about J.R.R. Tolkien, called Tolkien.
External links
- Robert Quilter Gilson - Memoirs of an Infantry Officer (documentary)
- Tolkien and the boy who didn’t believe in fairies by John Garth
- Robert Gilson at Webmatters.com
- Robert Quilter Gilson at the Trinity College Library website
