Siegfried Sassoon
(1886-1967), Poet and prose writerSiegfried Loraine Sassoon
Sitter in 86 portraits
Sassoon was an English poet and prose-writer. Enlisted in the Sussex Yeomanry (1914) and commissioned into the Royal Welch Fusiliers (1915), Sassoon won an MC in 1916. He was invalided home in 1917 and wrote a public protest against the War. He published war poems The Old Huntsman (1917) and Counter-Attack (1918) and in 1920 read his anti-war poems on a lecture tour in America. During the inter-war years he brought out further volumes of poetry and during the Second World War published an autobiographical trilogy of war memoirs.
by John Piggins (John Redvers)
pencil, circa 1951
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Lady Ottoline Morrell; Dorothy Brett; Siegfried Sassoon
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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Lady Ottoline Morrell; Dorothy Brett; Siegfried Sassoon
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1917
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, September 1920
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by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 23 August 1920
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by Bassano Ltd
whole-plate glass negative, 23 August 1920
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by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, 1920s
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by Eastman, Castle Studios
postcard print, 1920s
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, September 1920
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, September 1920
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Siegfried Sassoon; Robert Graves
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, September 1920
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Siegfried Sassoon; Robert Graves
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, September 1920
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Siegfried Sassoon with Lady Lady Ottoline Morrell's pug Soie
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, September 1920
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, September 1920
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Robert Graves; Siegfried Sassoon
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1920
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'The two Jews' (Siegfried Sassoon; Mark Gertler)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1921
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Lady Ottoline Morrell with friends
by Philip Edward Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1921
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Related People
- George Thornycroft Sassoon (son)
- Hester Sassoon (née Gatty) (wife)
- Sir (William) Hamo Thornycroft (uncle)
- Sir John Isaac Thornycroft (uncle)
- Mary Thornycroft (née Francis) (grandmother)
- Mary Alyce Thornycroft (aunt)
- Thomas Thornycroft (grandfather)
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