Published On Thursday, January 28, 2010. Under:
1800s,
Owen, Wilfred,
World War I.
Wilfred Owen was born at Oswestry on 18th March 1893
A month before his death he wrote to his mother: "My nerves are in perfect order. I came out again in order to help these boys; directly, by leading them as well as an officer can; indirectly, by watching their sufferings that I may speak of them as well as a pleader can." Let his own words be his epitaph:—
"Courage was mine, and I had mystery;
Wisdom was mine, and I had mastery."
~Siegfried Sassoon