Lieutenant Edward Wyndham Tennant (1 July 1897 – 22 September 1916) was a British war poet[1] killed during the Battle of the Somme.

At the age of seventeen he left school and joined the Grenadier Guards in the early weeks of the World War I. Tennant was known to friends and family as 'Bim', but the origin of this nickname is unknown.

It has been suggested that he was engaged before his death to Nancy Cunard, but a reliable source, Colin Tennant, 3rd Baron Glenconner, responded in a letter to a question on this point and stated that the suggestion was incorrect; Lois Gordon, Nancy Cunard's biographer, in her extensive research, never came across any hint of such an alliance either.

The upper inscription reads: "When things were at their worst he would go up and down in the trenches cheering the men, when danger was greatest his smile was loveliest.

Grenadier Guards, eldest son of Lord and Lady Glenconner, who passed to the fuller life in the battle of the Somme 22nd September 1916 Aged 19 years.