Wilfred Edward Salter Owen

Place: Oswestry

Born: 1893

Death: 1918

Biography:

Wilfred Owen was an English poet and soldier who is widely recognized as one of the greatest voices of the First World War. He was born on March 18, 1893, in Oswestry, Shropshire, England. His poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon and stood in contrast to the public perception of war at the time and to the confidently patriotic verse written by earlier war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Among his best-known works are 'Dulce et Decorum est', 'Insensibility', 'Anthem for Doomed Youth', 'Futility', 'Spring Offensive' and 'Strange Meeting'. Owen was killed in action on November 4, 1918, a week before the war's end, at the age of 25.