A British poet and soldier. One of the leading war poets of the First World War, he is known for his realistic poems depicting trench warfare, artillery shelling, poison gas, and the suffering and death of soldiers. His famous works include "Dulce et Decorum Est," "Anthem for Doomed Youth," "Futility," "Strange Meeting," and "Insensibility." In 1917, after suffering severe psychological trauma on the battlefield, he met the poet Siegfried Sassoon while recuperating at Craiglockhart War Hospital, which greatly developed his style as a poet. Returning to the Western Front in 1918, he was posthumously awarded the Military Cross for his courageous leadership in the battle at Joncourt. On November 4 of the same year, he was killed in action during the crossing of the Sambre–Oise Canal.

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