Bill Kennedy Shaw
Major William Boyd Kennedy Shaw OBE (26 October 1901–23 April 1979) was a British desert explorer, botanist, archaeologist and founding member of the Long Range Desert Group (LRDG) during World War II. He was known, variously as Bill Shaw or Bill Kennedy Shaw, but preferred the latter form of his name, which he always used in his writings.
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