Siegfried Sassoon Fellowship

The official society formed to promote interest in the life and work of Siegfried Sassoon

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9 July 1916 Siegfried Sassoon takes a horse ride to Corbie to visit Norman Loder ‘he lives in a very fine billet.’

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10 July 1916 Siegfried Sassoon’s battalion leaves Heilly for Citadel Camp.

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12 July 1916 Siegfried Sassoon with 7 other officers is in reserve at Transport lines close to Méaulte.

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12 July 1917 Siegfried Sassoon receives another telegram from his Commanding Officer ‘report immediately.’

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13 July 1916 Siegfried Sassoon is still in reserve ‘This life begets a condition of mental stagnation unless one keeps trying to get outside it all.’

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13 July 1918 Siegfried Sassoon is shot in the head by a fellow British soldier who mistook him for a German. It is a dramatic, but non-threatening flesh wound and Sassoon is able to stand and walk back to the trench without assistance.

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14 July 1916 Robert Graves gives Siegfried Sassoon a manuscript copy of 'When I'm Killed'
'When I'm killed, don't think of me
Buried here in Cambrin Wood.'
Read the rest of the poem here https://t.co/O2fxWMvTMP

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14 July 1916 Siegfried Sassoon has a long talk with Robert Graves ‘whimsical & queer & human as ever. We sat in the darkness, with guns booming along the valleys’ https://t.co/HKe6VAmEGP

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1 May 1916 Siegfried Sassoon includes the poem ‘The Journey’ in his diary.
‘Now I must wander, till my journey cease’

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1 May 1917 Siegfried Sassoon notes that it is his first time out of hospital as he lunches at the Reform Club.

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2 May 1917 Siegfried Sassoon lunches at the Reform Club with Arnold Bennett ‘very affable.’

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14 April 1917 Siegfried Sassoon is en route to the Hindenburg Line to relieve the 13th Northumberland Fusiliers. ‘our Northumberland Fusilier guides lost themselves and we didn’t arrive and complete the relief until 4 a.m'

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15 April 1916 Siegfried Sassoon includes the poem ‘Home’ in his diary.

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15 April 1917 Siegfried Sassoon notes that they have completed the relief of the 13th Northumberland Fusiliers on the Hindenburg Line ‘saw hellish sights of dead bodies everywhere.’

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16 April 1917 Siegfried Sassoon is shot through the shoulder by a sniper at 7.30 a.m; he leaves the trench about 9.45