OWEN, WILFRED EDWARD SALTER
- Rank:
- Lieutenant
- Date of Death:
- 04/11/1918
- Age:
- 25
- Regiment/Service:
- Manchester Regiment
-
- 5th Bn.
- Awards:
- M C
- Grave Reference
- A. 3.
- Cemetery
- ORS COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Additional Information:
Son of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Owen, of "Mahim", Monkmoor Rd., Shrewsbury. Native of Oswestry. Enlisted in The Artists' Rifles in October 1915. Commissioned into the Manchester Regiment in June 1916. Was a poet of repute, although during his lifetime, only a few of his poems appeared in print. The 'Atheneum' of December 1919, nominated Owen's work "Strange Meeting" as the finest of the war.