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.
Hester Sassoon (née Gatty); Siegfried Sassoon
by Unknown photographer
vintage snapshot print, early 1940s
NPG x46002
by William Edward Gray, after Glyn Warren Philpot
photograph, (1917)
NPG D40553
Robert Graves; Siegfried Sassoon
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
modern print from original film negative, 1920
NPG x140909
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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