sassoon

=Siegfried Sassoon=
 * September 8, 1886 - September 1, 1967**

Famous for "Trench Life Sketches" Wrote of the horrors of the trenches Did not agree with the reasons for the war Competed and responded to Owen Good friends with Graves Met Owen in a Military Hospital Postwar work lacked success and he eventually wrote prose/memoir reflecting on his wartime experiences.

I knew a simple soldier boy..... Who grinned at life in empty joy, Slept soundly through the lonesome dark, And whistled early with the lark.
 * Suicide in the Trenches**

In winter trenches, cowed and glum, With crumps and lice and lack of rum, He put a bullet through his brain. And no one spoke of him again.

You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you'll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.