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In the Footsteps of Wilfred Owen |
| Wilfred Owen's war poetry stems directly from his personal experiences of the trenches, the conditions and the officers and men who fought with him on the Somme in 1917, in the first attacks on the Hindenburg Line in the Spring of that year and in the final assaults on the Beaurevoir-Fonsomme Line a year later. |
| Owen wrote about what he witnessed, heard and experienced not just at Base Camp but also in reserve, in the front-line and in hospital. As a company commander responsible for censoring mail, he knew his men's thoughts, fears and innermost feelings. He saw the wounded and maimed, the dead and the dying, the brave and the cowardly at first hand. He led men over the top across open fields to assault enemy trenches and redoubts. He took them through shelling and machine-gun fire, was gassed and shell-shocked, recovered to win the Military Cross and was killed less than a week before the end of the war. |
Locations Visited |
Poems Studied |
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| • The Somme | ||
| • Bertrancourt | • 1914 | |
| • Serre Road | • The Sentry | |
| • Newfoundland Park Preserved Battlefield | • At a Calvary near the Ancre | |
| • Redan Ridge | • Hospital Barge at Cerisy | |
| • Blighty Valley | • Dulce et Decorum est | |
| • Munich Trench | • The Show | |
| • River Ancre | • Exposure | |
| • Thiepval Memorial | • The Chances | |
| • Cerisy-Gailly | • Le Christianisme | |
| Hindenburg Line | ||
| • Savy Wood | • Mental Cases | |
| • Francilly-Selency | • Disabled | |
| • Dancour Trench | • Strange Meeting | |
| • Joncourt | • The Send-Off | |
| • Manchester Hill | • Inspection | |
| • Ors | • Asleep | |
| • Sambre-Oise Canal | • Anthem for Doomed Youth | |
| • Le Cateau | • Smile, Smile, Smile | |
| • The Dead-Beat | ||
| Cost Includes | • Futility | |
| • Return ferry | • S.I.W. | |
| • Executive coaching throughout | • Conscious | |
| • Full-board hotel accommodation | • The Letter | |
| • En-suite facilities | • Greater Love | |
| • Battlefield Tour guide | • Apologia pro Poema Mea | |
| • The Next War | ||
| • Insensibility | ||
| The full tour, including all locations and all poetry, occupies 4 days but your school may book a 3-day tour which excludes the first nine poems and the Somme locations. |
| Itineraries can be tailored to your requirements. Contact us now by clicking here. |
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