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Siegfried Sassoon

(1886-1967), Poet and prose writer

Siegfried 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.

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Siegfried Sassoon, by William Edward Gray, after  Glyn Warren Philpot - NPG D40553

Siegfried Sassoon

by William Edward Gray, after Glyn Warren Philpot
photograph, (1917)
NPG D40553

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Robert Graves; Siegfried Sassoon

by Lady Ottoline Morrell
modern print from original film negative, 1920
NPG x140909

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Siegfried Sassoon

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1930
NPG x23913

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Siegfried Sassoon

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1930
NPG x23914

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Siegfried Sassoon

by Howard Coster
half-plate film negative, 1930
NPG x23915

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