Siegfried Sassoon
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Contents
Country
Great Britain
Birth - Death
1886 - 1967
Occupation
Poet
Notable Achievements
CBE, MC
Description
Poet, who developed an intense hatred for Germans in the war after they killed his lover David Thomas at Gallipoli, thereby earning him significant popularity and fame. Younger years lived as an avowed homosexual, but later years as a conservative aristocrat. Autobiographical trilogy 'The Complete Memoirs of George Sherston' won him several awards, including the James Tait Black Award for fiction (1928). Recepient of numerous military honours.