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Wilfred Owen

Died in 1918

Wilfred Owen was born in 1893 into a family without means that could not send him to university. He was a tutor in France when the war broke out and enlisted in 1915. Evacuated in 1917 with shell shock, he returned to France at the end of the summer of 1918 and was killed there on 4 November, aged twenty-five, while leading his men across a canal; the telegram reached his parents as the armistice bells were ringing. He had written the greater part of his work in little more than a year.

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