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.
'Eddy, Siegfried, Pung riding on Phil'
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, June 1926
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'Hôtel du Grand Cerf: Siegfried, Bob, me, Kyrle, Daddy'
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, July-August 1926
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, July-August 1926
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Bob Gathorne-Hardy; Kyrle Leng; Siegfried Sassoon; Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, July-August 1926
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, July-August 1926
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Philip Edward Morrell; Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); Siegfried Sassoon
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, July-August 1926
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Philip Edward Morrell; Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell); Siegfried Sassoon
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, July-August 1926
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Philip and Julian Morrell with friends at Garsington
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1926
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1926
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1926
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1926
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Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners; Siegfried Sassoon; Julian Vinogradoff (née Morrell)
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1926
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Gerald Tyrwhitt-Wilson, 14th Baron Berners; Siegfried Sassoon
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1926
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1926
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1926
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by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1926
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by Cecil Beaton
bromide print on white card mount, late 1920s
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Siegfried Sassoon; Leopold Hamilton Myers; Bob Gathorne-Hardy; Jean de Menasce; James Stephens
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1929
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Leopold Hamilton Myers; James Stephens; Siegfried Sassoon
by Lady Ottoline Morrell
vintage snapshot print, 1929
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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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