Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon CBE MC
Sassoon photographed in 1915 by George Charles Beresford
Born	Siegfried Loraine Sassoon (1886-09-08)8 September 1886 Matfield, Kent, England
Died	1 September 1967(1967-09-01) (aged 80) Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England
Pen name	Saul Kain Pinchbeck Lyre
Occupation	Soldier war poet writer
Education	Clare College, Cambridge Marlborough College New Beacon School
Genre	Poetry fiction biography
Notable works	The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston
Spouse	Hester Gatty ​ (m. 1933)​ Separated around 1945.
Children	George
Relatives	Sassoon family
Military career
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service/branch	British Army
Years of service	1914–1919
Rank	Captain
Unit	Sussex Yeomanry Royal Welch Fusiliers
Battles/wars	First World War
Awards	Military Cross

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western Front,^[1] he became one of the leading poets of the First World War. His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirized the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war.^[2] Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war with his "Soldier's Declaration" of July 1917, which resulted in his being sent to the Craiglockhart War Hospital. During this period he met and formed a friendship with Wilfred Owen, who was greatly influenced by him. Sassoon later won acclaim for his prose work, notably his three-volume, fictionalised autobiography, collectively known as the Sherston trilogy.