1917 in the United Kingdom
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The following events occurred in the United Kingdom in the year 1917. The year was dominated by the First World War.
Women's Land Army recruitment poster
December: British troops on parade at Jaffa Gate after the capture of Jerusalem and occupation of southern Palestine
Wilfred Owen
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Wilfred Edward Salter Owen was an English poet and soldier. He was one of the leading poets of the First World War. His war poetry on the horrors of trenches and gas warfare was much influenced by his
1917 in the United Kingdom
…killed five days later during another landing on the ship. 17 August – one of English literature's most important and famous meetings takes place when Wilfred Owen introduces himself to Siegfried Sassoon at Craiglockhart War Hospital in Edinburgh. Owen's war poems "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and "Dulce et Decorum…
Wilfred Owen in uniform
Owen's grave, in Ors communal cemetery