Wilfred Owen died on November 4th 1918 (i.e. just a week before Armistice) aged 25. He was shot in the back of the head whilst helping the men in his platoon cross the Sambre Oise canal. His parents Tom and Susan Owen received the telegram to say he had been killed after the Armistice had been signed, although Wilfred's brother Harold would later claim he had known all along that Wilfred was dead, owing to his seeing a ghostly apparition of Wilfred in uniform at around the time he was killed.
Wilfred Owen died on November 4, 1918 at the age of 25.
he died at war in France
He's dead; he died a week before the end of World war 1
Wilfred Owen's birth name is Wilfred Edward Salter Owen.
In "The Send Off" Wilfred Owen is referring to British troops on their way to the battlelines in WWI. Owen fought (and died) in the Great War himself.
Wilfred Owen was born on March 18, 1893.
He would be exactly 118 years old.
Thomas Owen.
Wilfred Owen's father was named Tom Owen and his mother was named Susan Shaw Owen. They were both from England.
Disabled by Wilfred Owen was written in 1917
Wilfred Owen was a soldier in the British Army during World War I. He held the rank of lieutenant in the Manchester Regiment. Owen is well known for his poetry that vividly depicted the horrors of war.
He was born in March 1893, so today in May, 2011, he would be 118.