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    Siegfried Loraine Sassoon CBE MC (8 September 1886 – 1 September 1967) was an English war poet, writer, and soldier. Decorated for bravery on the Western...
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    ISBN 9781844158737 Weil, S. 2022b. “Siegfried Sassoon and the Sassoons”.Clare Hall Review, pp. 52-3. "James Meyer Sassoon". International Consortium of Investigative...
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    horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by his mentor Siegfried Sassoon and stood in contrast to the public perception of war at the time...
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  • linguist, translator and author. Sassoon was the only child of the poet Siegfried Sassoon and his wife Hester Gatty, who were living mainly at Heytesbury House...
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  • discussing hidden memories of trauma and dissecting war nightmares. Siegfried Sassoon records that he would record his dreams to be dissected by Rivers...
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  • Terence Davies. It stars Jack Lowden and Peter Capaldi as the war poet Siegfried Sassoon, along with Simon Russell Beale, Jeremy Irvine, Kate Phillips, Gemma...
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    Alfred Ezra Sassoon (1861–1895; married Theresa Thornycroft Michael Thorneycroft Sassoon (1884-1969) Siegfried Sassoon Hamo Watts Sassoon, army officer...
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  • and a public school headmaster. He was a close friend of the poet Siegfried Sassoon, of whom he spoke and wrote extensively. In the 1990s he chaired the...
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  • Wagner Siegfried "Fritz" Flesch (1872–1939), Austrian saber fencer Siegfried Translateur (1875–1944), Austrian composer of dance music Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967)...
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    returned to combat. Rivers' most famous patient was the war poet Siegfried Sassoon, with whom he remained close friends until his own sudden death. During...
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  • Sherston trilogy is a series of books by the English poet and novelist, Siegfried Sassoon, consisting of Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man, Memoirs of an Infantry...
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  • the editor of the hospital magazine, The Hydra, and met the poet Siegfried Sassoon, who was to have a major impact upon his life and work and to play...
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    Rothschild. His sister was Sybil Sassoon, who married the Marquess of Cholmondeley. He was a cousin of the war poet Siegfried Sassoon. He was descended from the...
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    intellectual circles, where she befriended writers including Aldous Huxley, Siegfried Sassoon, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence, and artists including Mark Gertler...
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  • Stephen Tennant (category Siegfried Sassoon)
    1920s and 1930s Tennant had a long time sexual affair with the poet Siegfried Sassoon. Prior to this he had proposed to a friend, Elizabeth Lowndes, but...
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  • of poets and a friend to many poets, including Rupert Brooke and Siegfried Sassoon. In his career as a civil servant he worked as private secretary to...
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  • individuals present at the hospital including poets and patients, Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, and psychiatrist W. H. R. Rivers, who pioneered...
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    literature with significant writers such as Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, David Jones, Ivor Gurney, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas, and Isaac...
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    of Hugh Meyer Sassoon (first cousin of Siegfried Sassoon) and Marion (née Schiff); he is the great-great grandson of Sassoon David Sassoon. He was educated...
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    Shlomo-David's, Sassoon was born on 17 March 1860 in Baghdad, Iraq. He was a cousin of the celebrated English war poet and author Siegfried Sassoon, through...
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  • where they are treated for various traumas. It features the story of Siegfried Sassoon, his open letter reprinted in The Times criticising the conduct of...
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    his early death, and mentored several literary figures, including Siegfried Sassoon. His open homosexuality, in a period when male homosexual acts were...
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    Probably the most famous patients of Craiglockhart were the poets Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen, whose poems appeared in the hospital's own magazine...
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  • Rupert Brooke, Robert Graves, D. H. Lawrence, Walter de la Mare, Siegfried Sassoon, Ralph Hodgson, and John Drinkwater. Until the final two volumes,...
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  • Suicide in the Trenches (category Poems by Siegfried Sassoon)
    poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967) composed in response to World War I, reflecting his own notable service in that especially bloody conflict. Sassoon was...
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    time, Novello had an affair with the writer Siegfried Sassoon; it was short-lived, but in the words of Sassoon's biographer John Stuart Roberts, Novello "was...
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    by the English poet George Meredith about the song of the skylark. Siegfried Sassoon called it matchless of its kind, "a sustained lyric which never for...
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    Ellwood, were inspired by her readings of and about Robert Graves and Siegfried Sassoon, respectively. In 2023, Winn won the Waterstones Debut Fiction Prize...
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  • Very British Scandal, Max in Afterlife of the Party, and portrayed Siegfried Sassoon in The Laureate. Timothy Renouf was born in Jersey, the second of...
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  • Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man (category Books by Siegfried Sassoon)
    Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man is a novel by Siegfried Sassoon, first published in 1928 by Faber and Faber. It won both the Hawthornden Prize and the James...
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