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 Unknown photographer
bromide snapshot print, circa 1930
NPG x46009
by Howard Coster
bromide print, 1930
NPG Ax136092
by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1930
NPG x23912
Siegfried Sassoon; Edmund Blunden
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, 8 July 1931
NPG x46602
Lord David Cecil; Rachel (née MacCarthy), Lady David Cecil; Siegfried Sassoon
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1933
NPG Ax143585
Lord David Cecil; Rachel (née MacCarthy), Lady David Cecil; Siegfried Sassoon
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1933
NPG Ax143586
Edith Olivier; Siegfried Sassoon
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1933
NPG Ax143592
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1933
NPG Ax143593
Siegfried Sassoon; Hester Sassoon (née Gatty)
by Unknown photographer
velox snapshot print, mid 1930s
NPG x46004
Unknown woman; Siegfried Sassoon
by Unknown photographer
velox snapshot print, mid 1930s
NPG x46005
Siegfried Sassoon; Hester Sassoon (née Gatty)
by Unknown photographer
velox snapshot print, mid 1930s
NPG x46003
Siegfried Sassoon; Hester Sassoon (née Gatty)
by Unknown photographer
velox snapshot print, mid 1930s
NPG x46006
Siegfried Sassoon; Hester Sassoon (née Gatty) and an unknown woman
by Unknown photographer
velox snapshot print, mid 1930s
NPG x46007
Hester Sassoon (née Gatty); Siegfried Sassoon
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1934
NPG Ax143664
Edith Olivier; Siegfried Sassoon; Hester Sassoon (née Gatty)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1934
NPG Ax143665
Edith Olivier; Siegfried Sassoon; Hester Sassoon (née Gatty)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1934
NPG Ax143666
by Walter Stoneman
bromide print on card mount, July 1936
NPG x81395
Hester Sassoon (née Gatty); Siegfried Sassoon
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1936
NPG Ax144015
Hester Sassoon (née Gatty); Siegfried Sassoon
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1936
NPG Ax144016
Siegfried Sassoon; Florence (née Kahn), Lady Beerbohm; Sir Max Beerbohm
by Unknown photographer
velox snapshot print, circa 1937
NPG x46601
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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