Siegfried Sassoon (In Our Time)
1917 · Resource
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the war poet Siegfried Sassoon. In 1916 the Military Cross was awarded to a captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers for "conspicuous gallantry during a raid on the enemy's trenches". The citation noted that he had braved "rifle and bomb fire" and that "owing to his courage and determination, all the killed and wounded were brough
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Around 1917
- Russian Revolution (1917)
- World War I (1914)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Pop music: the 1910s (1910)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Easter Rising / Irish War of Independence (1916)
- Treaty of Versailles (1919)
- Xinhai Revolution (1911)
- Spanish flu pandemic (1918)
- Weimar Republic (1919)