Siegfried Sassoon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Siegfried Sassoon

English poet, diarist and memoirist

Date of Birth: 08-Sep-1886

Place of Birth: Matfield, England, United Kingdom

Date of Death: 01-Sep-1967

Profession: writer, reporter, military personnel, poet

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Siegfried Loraine Sassoon, (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English poet, writer, and soldier.
Decorated for bravery on the Western Front, he became one of the leading poets of the First World War.
His poetry both described the horrors of the trenches and satirised the patriotic pretensions of those who, in Sassoon's view, were responsible for a jingoism-fuelled war.
Sassoon became a focal point for dissent within the armed forces when he made a lone protest against the continuation of the war in his "Soldier's Declaration" of 1917, culminating in his admission to a military psychiatric hospital; this resulted in his forming 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".



Description	British-Irish photographer, author and writer
Date of birth/death	10 July 1864	21 February 1938
Location of birth/death	Dromahair, Ireland	Brighton
Work period	1902-1932
Work location	London
Authority control	: Q983504 VIAF: 6958662 ISNI: 0000 0000 5227 571X ULAN: 500098233 LCCN: no92010798 Oxford Dict.: 53502 WorldCat