Siegfried Sassoon

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human memoirist poet soldier

Siegfried Sassoon was a British poet, soldier, and memoirist best known for his fierce anti-war verse and his influential role in shaping World War I poetry.

Aliases (2)

Sassoon ×1
Siegfried Loraine Sassoon ×1

Statements (56)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	human → memoirist → poet → soldier →
allegiance	United Kingdom →
awardReceived	Military Cross →
burialPlace	St Andrew’s Churchyard, Mells, Somerset →
causeOfDeath	stomach cancer →
child	George Sassoon →
conflict	World War I →
convertedTo	Roman Catholicism →
countryOfCitizenship	United Kingdom →
dateOfBirth	1886-09-08 →
dateOfDeath	1967-09-01 →
educatedAt	Clare College, Cambridge NERFINISHED → Marlborough College →
familyName	Sassoon →
gender	male →
genre	autobiography → satire → war poetry →
givenName	Siegfried →
hasInfluenced	later war poets →
hasOccupation	fox hunter →
influenced	Wilfred Owen →
influencedBy	Rupert Brooke → Thomas Hardy →
knownFor	George Sherston trilogy → World War I poetry → anti-war poetry →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
militaryBranch	British Army →
militaryRank	captain →
movement	Georgian poetry → World War I poetry →
name	Siegfried Loraine Sassoon →
nationality	British →
notableWork	Counter-Attack and Other Poems → Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man → Memoirs of an Infantry Officer → Sherston’s Progress → The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston → The Old Huntsman and Other Poems → The War Poems of Siegfried Sassoon →
occupation	memoirist → poet → soldier → writer →
placeOfBirth	Matfield, Kent, England →
placeOfDeath	Heytesbury, Wiltshire, England →
religion	Roman Catholicism →
residence	Heytesbury House, Wiltshire →
sexualOrientation	homosexual →
spouse	Hester Gatty →
unit	Royal Welch Fusiliers →
wrote	A Soldier’s Declaration →

Referenced by (4)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Georgian poetry →	associatedWith
Siegfried Sassoon ("Sassoon") →	familyName
Wilfred Owen →	influencedBy
Siegfried Sassoon ("Siegfried Loraine Sassoon") →	name