Wilfred Owen
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| 1893/02/18 | Wilfred Edward Salter Owen is born at Plas Wilmot, near Oswestry in Shropshire, to Thomas and Harriet Susan Owen. | Born | Plas Wilmot | Oswestry | Wilfred Owen's Birthday | ||
| 1915/10/21 | Owen enlist in the Artists' RiflesOfficers' Training Corps, and over the next seven months, trains at Hare Hall Camp in Essex. | Military | Sections Of Boundary Wall, Railings, Gates And Gate Piers To Former Gidea Hall | Romford | |||
| 1916/06/04 | Wilfred Owen is commissioned a second lieutenant (on probation) in the Manchester Regiment. | English Officer | |||||
| 1916/12/30 | After completed his military training, Wilfred Owensails for France. | English Officer | |||||
| 1917/01/00 | Wilfred Owen and his men have to hold out for 50 hours in a flooded dug-out in No Man's Land near Serre Number 2 Cemetery while being heavily bombarded by German artillery. | Military | |||||
| 1917/01/09 | Owen joins the 2nd Manchesters at Bertrancourt near Amiens. Writing to his mother: I can see no excuse for deceiving you about these last four days. I have suffered seventh hell. - I have not been at the front. - I have been in front of it. | Military | |||||
| 1917/01/17 | "In the platoon on my left the sentries over the dug-out were blown to nothing. One of these poor fellows was my first servant whom I rejected. If I had kept him he would have lived, for servants don't do Sentry Duty."- W Owen | Military | |||||
| 1917/05/00 | Owen is blasted by a shell at Savy Bank and spends several days unconscious on a railway embankment. The explosion killed his best friend 'Cock Robin'. Owen is diagnosed with neurasthenia or shell shock and sent to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh. | Health | |||||
| 1917/06/00 | Owen convalesces in Craiglockhart under the supervision of Dr A J Brock. While convalescing, he writes much of the poetry for which he will become famous, including 'Anthem for Doomed Youth'. | Health | |||||
| 1918/02/18 | On his 25th birthday Wilfred Owen, quietly spends time at Ripon Cathedral, which is dedicated to his namesake, St Wilfrid of Hexham. | Life | Ripon Minster (Cathedral Church Of St Peter And Wilfrid) | Ripon | Wilfred Owen's Birthday | ||
| 1918/08/26 | Deemed fit for service in June 1918, W Owen embarks for France heading off to front line action. | Military | |||||
| 1918/10/01 | For actions during an attack the Fonsomme Line near Joncourt, Owen is awarded the Military Cross for bravery. Owen assumed command of the company and used a captured enemy machine gun in an isolated position to inflicted considerable losses on the enemy. | Military | |||||
| 1918/10/31 | "It is a great life. Of this I am certain: you could not be visited by a band of friends half so fine as surround me here." from Owen's last letter to his mother. | Military | |||||
| 1918/11/04 | While the Royal Engineers attempt to construct a bridge out of wire-linked floats to allow Owen's brigade to cross the Sambre canal at Ors, Wilfred Owen is shot and killed. | Died | |||||
| 1918/11/11 | While church bells ring out all over the kingdom to celebrate the end of the Great War for Civilization, Wilfred Owen's mother receives the letter informing her of his death. | In Memoriam | Armistice Day |
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