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BIOGRAPHICAL TABLE OF WILFRED OWEN

1893	18 March	Born Plas Wilmot, Oswestry.
1897		Family moves to Birkenhead.
1906		Family moves to Shrewsbury.
1911		Wilfred becomes a lay assistant at Dunsden.
1913	February	Leaves Dunsden and returns home ill.
	September	To Bordeaux, France to teach English in the Berlitz School.
1914	June	Tutoring in a family at Bagneres de Bigorre, in the Pyrenees. Meets French poet Laurent Tailhade.
	December	Tutoring in an English family in Bordeaux.
1915	May to June	Back to France after a brief visit home.
	October	Returns to England and enlists in 3/28th London Regiment which shortly afterwards became the 2nd Artists Rifles Officers Training Corps.
1916	June	Commissioned into the Manchester Regiment Reports to 5th (Reserve) Bn. Manchester Regiment at Milford Camp, Near Witley. With friend 2/Lt Gregg (later kia) devises improvement to gas mask.
	7th July	Arrives at Talavera Barracks, Aldershot where he is attached to 25th Bn.Middlesex Regt. (C.O. Lieutenant-Colonel John Ward M.P.) for a Musketry Course at Mychett Camp, Farnborough. The course ends and he is classified "1st Class Shot". Returns to Witley Camp.
	18th November	Official end to Battle of Somme.
	24th November	2nd Manchesters leave Somme battlefield down to 156 officers and men.
	October to November	To Southport. In rooms at 168a Lord Street, Southport.
		To Fleetwood. Takes command of a firing range party. Lodges at 111 Bold Street, Fleetwood.
	8th December	Back in Southport. Takes charge of Musketry Party on the range at Crossens, nr Southport.
	Christmas	Embarkation leave.
	29th December	Folkestone. In transit to join 2nd Manchesters.
1917	1st January	Arrives in France, thence to the notorious Infantry Base Depot at Etaples and later to 2nd Manchesters as an Officer reinforcement.
	12th January	Into the front line at Serre in charge of "A" Company. Takes half of his platoon and occupies a former German bunker in No Man's Land and posts a sentry who during a bombardment is blinded. (This incident became the subject of "The Sentry").
	4th February	Transport Course at Abbeville.
	1st March	Rejoins the battalion in the line near Le Quesnoy en Santerre.
	14/15th March	Suffers concussion following a fall.
	17th March	Arrives at No13 Casualty Clearing Station at Gailly.
	4th April	Rejoins battalion near Manchester Hill, Selency.
	8th/30th April	In and out of the line at Savy Wood and in the attack on Dancour trench, St Quentin.
	2nd May	The C.O., Lieutenant-Colonel Luxmoore, notices that Owen is unwell. Evacuated to No13 CCS with shell shock.
	16th June	To Netley Hospital, Hampshire.
	25th June	Arrives Craiglockhart War Hospital, Edinburgh.
	Mid August	Meets Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves.
	October	Writes "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and "Dulce et Decorum Est".
	November	After leave, is posted to 5th (Reserve) Bn. Manchesters at Scarborough. Acts as mess secretary at Clarence Gardens Hotel (Now Clifton Hotel).
1918	31st January	Attends Robert Graves' wedding.
	March	To Northern Command, Ripon. Rents lodgings in Borage (Borrage) Lane.
	June	Passed fit for service and joins 5th Manchesters in Scarborough.
	August	Sees Siegfried Sassoon, wounded in hospital. Returns to France.
	September	Again posted to 2nd Manchesters as an officer reinforcement.
	1st-3rd October	In the Brigade attack on the Beaurevoir-Fonsomme Line at Joncourt. Recommended for M.C.
	30th-31st October	2nd Manchesters take over the line west of the Sambre-Oise canal, near Ors. Writes to his mother from the cellar of the Maison Forestiere (Forester's House) at Pommereuil.
	4th November	Killed in action on the banks of the Sambre-Oise canal.
	11th November	News of his death reaches Shrewsbury.
1919		Publication of seven poems in "Wheels".
1920	December	Publication of "Poems of Wilfred Owen", with an introduction by Siegfried Sassoon.
1931	Autumn	Completion by Edmund Blunden of the editing of Owen's poems.