Wilfred Owen

(1893 - 1918)

Having begun work on a poetry collection he planned to call Minor Poems—in Minor Keys—by a Minor, Wilfred Owen enlisted in the British Army in 1915. Two years later he recuperated from a wound at the Craiglockart War Hospital, where he shared his verse with fellow patient and published poet Siegfried Sassoon. He returned to France in August 1918, received a Military Cross in October, and was killed in November, a week before Armistice Day. Sassoon oversaw the posthumous publication of his friend’s poetry.