![]() He served as a soldier in the Suffolk Regiment, enlisting "in the ranks" in August 1918. ![]() ![]() Shute attended the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and trained as a gunner, but because of his stammer was unable to take up a commission in the Royal Flying Corps in the Great War. He was buried at Wimereux Communal Cemetery, Pas-de-Calais. On 13 June 1915 his elder brother, Fredrick Hamilton Norway, aged 19, was wounded at Epinette, near Armentières, and was evacuated to Wimereux where he died, on 4 July, with his parents by his side. Shute himself was later commended for his role as a stretcher-bearer during the rising. Shute's father, Arthur Hamilton Norway, became head of the Post Office in Ireland before the First World War and was based at the main post office in Dublin in 1916 at the time of the Easter Rising. He was educated at the Dragon School, Shrewsbury School and Balliol College, Oxford he graduated from Oxford University in 1922 with a third-class degree in engineering science. Born in Somerset Road, Ealing, Middlesex, the Norway family house is described in Trustee from the Toolroom. ![]()
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