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- Birkenhead Institute Whetstone Lane Roll of Honour 1914-1919
'TO THE HONOURED MEMORY OF OLD BOYS OF THIS SCHOOL WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR OF 19 ... - War Poets
Those who wrote about their experiences of the War. A variety of political views is represented. ... - THE BIRKENHEAD INSTITUTE 88
REMEMBERING THE 88 OLD BOYS AND STAFF OF THE SCHOOL WHO FELL IN WW1 ... - Recipients of the Military Cross
Soldiers of the First World War awarded the Military Cross ... - Stories featured in Centenary Connections
Centenary Connections is an app that leads users on a journey across Greater Manchester to discover ... - Mike Newbury's - literary and other types
Personal list of casualties with a literary or artistic connection ... - First Person
First-person experiences of WW1, taken from letters, diaries, personal albums, oral history, memoir, ... - Stories featured in From Street to Trench: A World War that Shaped a Region
This special exhibition, at IWM North in Manchester, revealed the important contribution the North W ... - Artists Rifles
The Artists Rifles was a popular unit for volunteers. It particularly attracted recruits from public ... - Minnie Pit Disaster January 12th 1918
This community will remember the Minnie Pit disaster, 155 miners and one rescue worker died producin ... - Individuals featured in IWM London 'War Poets' exhibition (Opened 6 November 1974)
The exhibition 'War Poets' featured 6 notable individuals. Community also features Geoffrey Keynes, ... - Stories featured in From Street To Trench: A World War that Shaped a Region
The special exhibition at IWN North in Manchester, revealed the important contribution the North of ... - Stories of LGBT individuals
This Community is made up of people who made a contribution or sacrifice in the First World War, and ... - Lives stories with tales to tell
A collection of Lives stories with their own stories to tell ... - Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbey
This community aims to gather the 16 Great War poets memorialized in Poets' Corner, Westminster Abbe ... - Linked to Wirral
This community draws together those who were born or lived in the towns or villages on the Wirral or ... - The Dymock Poets & Friends
The Dymock poets were a literary group of the early 20th century who made their homes near the villa ... - Royal Mail Commemorative Stamps
This Community unites the individuals featured or referenced in Royal Mail's series of commemorative ... - The END in sight but still they DIED
Soldiers who Died at the very end. ... - The Manchester Pals.
I have set up this community page in appreciation of the assistance I have received from the volunte ... - Stories from August 1918
This community brings together a collection of stories that happened in August 1918 as means of comm ... - Stories featured in the Lest We Forget? Exhibition
This Community is made up of named individuals who were represented in the Lest We Forget? exhibitio ... - First World War Centenary Battlefield Tours Programme
Community to record one story submitted by each school taking part in the UK government's national e ... - Pages of the Sea
On 11 November 2018, communities gathered on beaches across the UK to say goodbye and thank you, to ... - Eleven Final Days till the Guns Fall Silent
Those who died in service between 1st of November 1918 and Armistice Day. ... - The Mouthless Dead
This community gathers the life stories of poets who served and died in WW1. It takes its name from ...
Stories
- '1914-1919 The War Period' extract from A History of Birkenhead Institute 1889-1949
'Among the many who fell was one whose name will truly live for evermore, Wilfred T Owen, M.C., Lieu ... - New memorial to Wilfred Owen
A Caithness flagstone bearing a quote "My subject is war and the pity of war. The poetry is in the p ... - The Spring Offensive by Wilfred Owen
Halted against the shade of a last hill, they fed, and, lying easy, were at ease and, finding comfor ... - The End by Wilfred Owen.
After the blasts of lightning from the east, the flourish of loud clouds, the chariot throne, after ... - Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wlfred Owen.
What passing - bells for these who die as cattle? Only the monstrous anger of the guns. Only the stu ... - Letter written by Wilfred to his mother Susan, 16 January 1917
My own sweet Mother, I am sorry you have had about 5 days letterless. I hope you had my two letters ... - Miners, by Wilfred Owen
22/07/2016 Wilfred Owen published this poem before his death. One of only a few. The Minnie Pit D ... - Employment at the Vicarage of Dunsden
In 1911, Owen became an assistant to the Vicar of Dunsden in exchange for free tuition with the hope ... - Wilfred Owen's first meeting with Siegfried Sassoon at Craiglockhart War Hospital, August 1917
Wilfred Owen, having spent two weeks mustering up the courage, introduces himself to the renowned w ... - Siegfried Sassoon's influence on Wilfred Owen's poetry
During Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon's shared months at Craiglockhart War Hospital, the two bec ... - Posthumous Publishing of Wilfred Owen's Poems
The first collection of Wilfred Owen's poems is published under the editorship of Siegfried Sassoon. ... - 2nd Manchesters' occupation of a German dug-out, January 1917
On 12th January 1917, having received orders for the 2nd Manchesters to take over part of the front ... - Dealing with neurasthenia
Having been admitted to Craiglockhart War Hospital with neurasthenia, or 'shell-shock', Owen became ... - Wilfred Owen's Death, 4th November 1918
On the 4th November, Wilfred Owen was killed in action during a battle to cross the Sambre-Oise cana ... - Awarding of the Military Cross
Wilfred Owen proved his bravery in an attack on the Beaurevoir-Fonsomme Line at Joncourt where he to ... - Canon H R Bate's comments on Wilfred Owen
In his personal memoirs, Canon H R Bate, who spent time with Owen in the Artists Rifles and later in ... - Wilfred Owen’s Sexuality
Wilfred Owen’s sexuality is a topic which has evoked much interest and speculation, this bein ... - Returning to the Front
After his time on sick leave in Craiglockhart, Owen made the decision to return to fighting in Franc ... - Wilfred Owen's letter detailing his experience on the front at Joncourt
In this letter, written to his mother on the 4th/5th October 1918, Wilfred describes the war encount ... - Dulce et Decorum Est
In October 1918, whilst at Craiglockhart, Owen wrote his first draft of 'Dulce et Decorum Est', argu ... - Siegfried Sassoon's reflections on Wilfred Owen's impact on himself
Siegfried Sassoon, in his private letters to his friend and former second-in-command, Vivian de Sola ... - Anthem for Doomed Youth
"What passing-bells for these who die as cattle? — Only the monstrous anger of the guns ...
- Record:
- OWEN, WILFRED EDWARD SALTER
- Additional information:
- Son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Owen, of "Mahim", Monkmoor Rd., Shrewsbury. Native of Oswestry. Enlisted in The Artists' Rifles in October 1915. Commissioned into the Manchester Regiment in June 1916. Was a poet of repute, although during his lifetime, only a few of his poems appeared in print. The 'Atheneum' of December 1919, nominated Owen's work "Strange Meeting" as the finest of the war.
- Cemetery:
- ORS COMMUNAL CEMETERY
- Cemetery/memorial reference:
- A. 3.
- Country:
- United Kingdom
- Wikipedia page for Wilfred Owen
- Wilfred Edward Salter Owen - biography from Surrey in the Great War:
- Surrey's Somme. Commemoration of Surrey men at the Somme - story from Surrey in the Great War
- The Poetry of Wilfred Owen. The connection between Surrey and Wilfred Owen, the Great War poet - story from Surrey in the Great War
- Wilfred Edward Salter Owen. Famous Great War poet, who spent time in Surrey during 1916. - story from Surrey in the Great War
- Wilfred Owen at Witley Camp. The Great War poet spent time at Witley camp, in 1916, with the Manchester Regiment. - story from Surrey in the Great War
- Wilfred Owen in Guildford and Godalming. The famous poet visited Guildford and Godalming frequently during his time in Surrey, 1916. - story from Surrey in the Great War
- Wilfred Owen's Letters Home from Witley Camp. A selection of letters written by Wilfred Owen to his family back home. - story from Surrey in the Great War
- Wilfred Owen (War Poet) - Symmetry
- Wlfred Owen (War Poet)- Seat and Plaque
- Every One Remembered - record for Wilfred Edward Salter Owen
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