Editing Nevil Shute (section)

== Early life ==
Shute was born in Somerset Road, [[Ealing]] (which was then in [[Middlesex]])<!-- Do not change to London, Ealing was in Middlesex in 1899 -->, in the house described in his novel ''[[Trustee from the Toolroom]]''. He was educated at the [[Dragon School]], [[Shrewsbury School]] and [[Balliol College, Oxford]]; he graduated from Oxford in 1922 with a third-class degree in engineering science.

Shute was the son of Arthur Hamilton Norway, who became head of the Post Office in [[Ireland]] before the First World War and was based at the [[General Post Office, Dublin]] in 1916 at the time of the [[Easter Rising]], and his wife Mary Louisa Gadsden. Shute himself was later commended for his role as a stretcher-bearer during the rising.<ref name="A. P. Ryan">{{cite web|last1=Ryan|first1=A. P.|title=Extract from the Dictionary of National Biography 1951–1960|url=http://www.nevilshute.org/Biography/dictionarynationalbio.php|website=Nevil Shute Foundation|access-date=23 April 2015|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150902014922/http://www.nevilshute.org/Biography/dictionarynationalbio.php|archive-date=2 September 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nevilshute.org/PhotoLine/PLD-1911-1920/pl-1911-1920-02.php|title=Photo Timeline: 1911–1920 page 2|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120419073441/http://www.nevilshute.org/PhotoLine/PLD-1911-1920/pl-1911-1920-02.php|archive-date=19 April 2012|url-status=live|publisher=Nevil Shute Foundation|access-date=10 June 2016}}</ref> His grandmother [[Georgina Norway]] was a novelist.

Shute attended the [[Royal Military Academy, Woolwich]], and trained as a gunner. He was unable to take up a commission in the [[Royal Flying Corps]] in the [[First World War]], which he believed was because of his stammer. He served as a soldier in the [[Suffolk Regiment]], enlisting in the ranks in August 1918. He guarded the [[Isle of Grain]] in the Thames Estuary, and served in military funeral parties in Kent during the [[1918 flu pandemic]].<ref name="A. P. Ryan" />