Poet. He was an English poet, writer and soldier, who was one of the leading poets of the World War I. With the outbreak of the war, he enlisted in the British Army and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers in May of 1915. In March of 1916, he was sent to the Western Front, where in action was awarded a Military Cross for bringing back a wounded soldier during heavy fire. After being wounded himself in January of 1917, he began to write his angry and compassionate poems about the horrors of the war. For the remainder of his service time, he wrote primarily some one hundred poems which protested the continuation of World War I. After the war, he published his collection "The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon," which had 64 poems of the war. He lectured and continued to write, some of his most successful works include "The Memoirs of George Sherston," "Springfield Republican," "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer," and "Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man." In 1951, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, became an honorary fellow at Clare College, Cambridge in 1953 and received an honorary degree from Oxford University in 1965. Although he had very public romantic encounters with a host of people, he married in 1933 and the couple had a son, which he adored. He died one week before his 81st birthday.
Poet. He was an English poet, writer and soldier, who was one of the leading poets of the World War I. With the outbreak of the war, he enlisted in the British Army and was commissioned a 2nd Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers in May of 1915. In March of 1916, he was sent to the Western Front, where in action was awarded a Military Cross for bringing back a wounded soldier during heavy fire. After being wounded himself in January of 1917, he began to write his angry and compassionate poems about the horrors of the war. For the remainder of his service time, he wrote primarily some one hundred poems which protested the continuation of World War I. After the war, he published his collection "The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon," which had 64 poems of the war. He lectured and continued to write, some of his most successful works include "The Memoirs of George Sherston," "Springfield Republican," "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer," and "Memoirs of a Fox Hunting Man." In 1951, he was made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire, became an honorary fellow at Clare College, Cambridge in 1953 and received an honorary degree from Oxford University in 1965. Although he had very public romantic encounters with a host of people, he married in 1933 and the couple had a son, which he adored. He died one week before his 81st birthday.
Bio by: John "J-Cat" Griffith
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