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MANY people will know that Wilfred Owen was
a well-known First World War poet whose work is renowned to this day.
What people may not know is
that there is a link between the poet and Nantwich. He was born in
Oswestry, Shropshire, on March 18, 1893, the son of Thomas and Susan
Owen.
But, according to research by
Nantwich historian. Andrew
63 Welsh Row as it is today - a clinic.
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Lamberton, his grandparents, William and
Martha Owen, lived at 63 Welsh Row, Nantwich. Their son, Thomas Owen,
Wilfred Edward Salter Owen's father, was born in Nantwich in 1862. He had three
older sisters, Annie, Edith Charlotte and Emily Eliza, who were all born
in Nantwich.
William and Martha moved to
Shrewsbury, with the girls, between 1881 and 1891. Thomas moved to Oswestry around this time.
Family records show that William was born in 1837 in Nantwich, and died
in Shrewsbury in 1914. Thomas died in Oswestry in 1931.
Wilfred Owen, a second
lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment, was killed in action, near to the Sambre Canal at Ors, France,
on November 4, 1918,
aged 25. News of his death was received at the family home on November
11, Armistice Day.
Andrew Lamberton said: "Wilfred
is considered to have been the best of the First World War poets and
knew Siegfried Sassoon well."
Sassoon, another renowned poet,
was the publisher of Owen's poetry.
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Read more about Wilfred Owen in the
First World
War Poetry Digital Archive, University of Oxford. |
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Wilfred Owen
Copyright image used with the permission of
the English Faculty Library, University of Oxford / The Wilfred Owen
Literary Estate.
The
Wilfred Owen Association |
