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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Manchester Regiment officers, Manchester Regiment soldiers, Wilfred Owen, Frederick George Jackson, Bernard Manning, John Gellibrand, Issy Smith, 63rd Regiment of Foot, Jack Churchill, Charles Henry Pepys Harington, Arthur Whitten Brown, Vere Bonamy Fane, A. E. W. Mason, 96th Regiment of Foot, William Cushion, Rex King-Clark, Boyd Merriman, 1st Baron Merriman, Netherwood Hughes, Wilfrith Elstob, Wilfrid Freeman, George Stringer, John Broadbent, George Stuart Henderson, Henry Kelly, Willoughby Gwatkin, Harold Thomas Cawley, Leslie Statham, Henry James Knight, William Thomas Forshaw, Reginald Essenhigh, John Mason, James Pitts, Richard William Leslie Wain, George Evans, Alfred Robert Wilkinson, Robert Scott, John Hogan, Hubert Worthington, James Leach, James Kirk, Frank Oswald Thorne, Charles Harry Coverdale, Walter Mills, Hugh Christopher Lempriere Heywood, Athol Alexander Stuart, William Kay, Kenneth Horsfield, Douglas Glover. Excerpt: Wilfred Edward Salter Owen MC (18 March 1893 - 4 November 1918) was an English poet and soldier, one of the leading poets of the First World War. His shocking, realistic war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was heavily influenced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon and sat in stark contrast to both the public perception of war at the time, and to the confidently patriotic verse written earlier by war poets such as Rupert Brooke. Some of his best-known works-most of which were published posthumously-include "Dulce et Decorum Est," "Insensibility," "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "Futility" and "Strange Meeting." Wilfred Owen was born the eldest of four children in Plas Wilmot; a house near Oswestry in Shropshire on 18 March 1893, of mixed English and Welsh ancestry. His siblings were Harold, Colin, and Mary Millard Owen. At that time, his parents, Thomas and Harriet Susan (Shaw...
