TIL "Willie McBride," the fallen soldier eulogized in the folk song "No Man's Land (Green Fields of France)," is both fictional and real. The writer invented his name, but several young men named "William McBride" did die in World War I and match some or all of the song's description.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Man%27s_Land_(Eric_Bogle_song)#Identity_of_Willie_McBr…
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