Video: '1914~1918. A BBC History of the Great War: 3. Total War' (June 15, 1918, at 17:06)

(Saturday, June 15, 1918; on the Italian Front during World War I) — Captain Edward Brittain, a British Army officer who was immortalized by his sister Vera Brittain in Testament of Youth, was shot in the head and killed early this morning on the Asiago Plateau during a counter-attack against an Austrian offensive, part of the Second Battle of the Piave River at Piave, Italy.

Brittain’s commanding officer believed that Brittain had put himself in harm’s way to avoid a court martial and the shame that this would bring upon his family for having had homosexual relations with men in his company.