Literary Figure. He was the third son of the five Llewelyn Davies brothers, whom the playwright, J.M. Barrie based the Darling family in his 1904 masterpiece play, "Peter Pan." He was a newborn when Barrie came into the Llewelyn Davies family's life. After the death of the brothers' parents from cancer within three years, Barrie had become the guardian of the brothers by 1910. Shortly at his mother's death, he was sent to Eaton. With the given name of "Peter," he took the blunt of the "Peter Pan" fame, especially during his school years. During World War I, he received a commission of 2nd Lieutenant in the King's Royal Rifle Corps in September of 1914 at the age of 17. He was a signal officer in France and spent time in the trenches. He was hospitalized for a Staphylococcus infection on his skin in an era with no real antibiotics. His brother George was killed in action in 1915. In 1917 he met and became romantically involved with Vera Willoughby, a married Hungarian-born artist, who was twenty-seven years his senior. The relationship ended with the war ending. He had reached the rank of captain by March of 1918. When the German spring offensive started, he was in the 7th Battalion KRRC. After the unit's commanding officer was wounded, he advanced to commander of the battalion in the middle of a 15-day battle. For this action, he was awarded the Military Cross. Along with the death of his parents and two brothers, the war scarred him even more emotionally. With Barrie's financial backing, he became a book publisher, Peter Davies Ltd. in 1926. The same year, he published an edition of George Farquhar's "The Recruiting Officer," featuring illustrations by his war companion, Willoughby. In 1931 he married Margaret Leslie Hore-Ruthven and the couple had three sons: Ruthven, George, and Peter. At the birth of his son Peter, the newspaper headlines announced a "New Peter Pan." With Barrie's death in 1937, he was disappointed at not becoming an heir to Barrie's wealth. A majority share of Peter Davies Ltd was purchased by William Heinemann in 1937. After collecting the family's papers, he published the collection as "Morgue" in 1950. Suffering for chronic depression, alcoholism, and like his brother Jack, a respiratory illness, he threw himself under a train. The coroner's report was suicide with the newspaper headlines calling him once again "Peter Pan." He was first cousin of the author, Daphne du Maurier. "Peter Pan" became a 1911 novel and continued into films with the first being a silent film in 1924. The play "Peter Pan" is still a favorite into the 21st century with a successful 2015 Broadway production of "Finding Neverland."