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  1. Edward Harold Brittain, MC (30 November 1895 – 15 June 1918) was a British Army officer who was killed in the First World War; he was immortalised by his sister Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth.

  2. Queer Places: Granezza British Cemetery, 36046 Lusiana, Province of Vicenza. St Barnabas, 88 Sackville Rd, Hove BN3 3HE, UK. Edward Harold Brittain, MC (30 November 1895 – 15 June 1918) was a British Army officer who was killed in the First World War; he was immortalised by his sister Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth.

  3. Jan 16, 2015 · Edward Brittain was the brother of Vera Brittain, the author of Testament of Youth, a classic memoir of the First World War. He was killed in action in 1918, after revealing his homosexuality to his commanding officer and refusing to face a court martial.

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  5. Edward Brittain, the only son of Thomas Brittain (1864-1935), a wealthy paper manufacturer, and Edith Bervon (1868-1948), was born at Atherstone House, Newcastle-under-Lyme on 30th November 1895. Vera developed a close relationship with his sister, Vera Brittain. According to her biographer, Alan Bishop: "As they grew up, tended by a governess ...

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  6. May 18, 2018 · History. News. Somme hero was fatally outed. Captain Edward Brittain, brother of Newcastle-born feminist and pacifist Vera Brittain, faced the prospect of a courts martial and disgrace should...

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  7. Edward Brittain was a British Army officer who was killed in action in Italy in 1918. He was the brother of Vera Brittain, a prominent writer and pacifist, and the uncle of Edward Brittain, a poet and soldier.

  8. Jun 15, 2018 · Edward Brittain was a British officer who served on the Western and Italian Fronts and was killed in action in 1918. He was the brother of writer and nurse Vera Brittain, who chronicled his letters and their friendship in her books Testament of Youth and Letters from a Lost Generation.

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