He fought in the Battle of Loos and was injured in the Somme offensive in 1916. John's College, Oxford, but in August 1914 he enlisted as a junior officer in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. In 1913 Graves won a scholarship to continue his studies at St. As a young man, he was more interested in boxing and mountain climbing than studying, although poetry later sustained him through a turbulent adolescence. One of ten children, Robert was greatly influenced by his mother's puritanical beliefs and his father's love of Celtic poetry and myth. His mother, Amalie von Ranke Graves, was a relation of Leopold von Ranke, one of the founding fathers of modern historical studies. His father, Alfred Perceval Graves, was a Gaelic scholar and minor Irish poet. On July 24, 1895, Robert Graves was born in Wimbledon, near London.
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