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    Who was the Welsh poet and shepherd who during the Great War won the National Eisteddfod but whose winner's chair remained empty at the usual ceremony because he had died six weeks before as a soldier of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers ?

    Question #81203. Asked by Flem-ish. (May 30 07 8:57 AM)


    Sofie

    		Ellis Evans.

    http://www.scuttlebuttsmallchow.com/listwels.html

    May 30 07, 8:59 AM
    Flem-ish

    		Ellis Humphrey Evans indeed aka Hedd Wyn. Seems that a film was made about his life.

    May 30 07, 9:10 AM

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