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Did George Chesterton serve in the military?

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Yes, George Chesterton served in the military. He enlisted in the British Army during World War I and served as a private in the Royal Army Medical Corps. He was stationed in France and Belgium, where he witnessed the horrors of trench warfare firsthand. His experiences during the war had a profound impact on his writing, and he often drew upon them in his later works.
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