Siegfried Sassoon

Siegfried Sassoon was born in 1886 in Kent and led in the country the cultivated life of a gentleman without a profession, wholly devoted to fox hunting. He enlisted as a trooper in August 1914 and became an officer the following year. Decorated for bravery, he made public in July 1917 a statement refusing to go on serving; a friend arranged for him to be sent to a military hospital in Edinburgh, which spared him a court martial. There he met a young poet who is also included in this catalogue. He converted to Catholicism in 1957 and died in 1967.

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• NovelMemoirs of a Fox-Hunting ManSiegfried Sassoon · 1928Literature