5 August 1916     English composer George Butterworth was shot through the head by a sniper during the Battle of the Somme. He is best known for the orchestral idyll The Banks of Green Willow and his song settings of A. E. Housman's poems from A Shropshire Lad.

Six Songs from A Shropshire Lad by George Butterworth on YouTube,     0:04 Loveliest of Trees, 3:14 When I Was One-and-Twenty, 4:56 Look Not In My eyes, 7:18 Think No More, Lad, 9:13 The Lads in Their Hundreds, 12:03 Is My Team Ploughing?     https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyfddNd9jJI
The Banks of Green Willow composer George Butterworth remembered    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yCPohrh4LUk
Banks of Green Willow · Martin Carthy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gD5Gg5LjsAw
George Butterwort from Wikipedia    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Butterworth
Mudcat George Butterworth (Musician-died 1916)     /mudcat.org/thread.cfm?threadid=163854&messages=19