Wilfred Owen wrote many moving letters to his mother during his service in World War One, and in them he describes his devastating experience of life on the Western Front. He also transformed this ...

Wilfred Owen was born at Plas Wilmot on 18 March 1893, but in 1897 Owen's maternal grandfather, Edward Shaw, died and the family had to sell up to pay debts. The family moved to Birkenhead and ...

Edward Salter, Wilfred Owen's great grandfather, started building the Oswestry house in 1829, but died a year later. His wife Mary finished the house. The Nicholas family moved into the house two ...

Save guides, add subjects and pick up where you left off with your BBC account. Wilfred Owen was a poet who wrote about the horrors of war from his experience serving in the British Army during ...

Letters to Susan Owen Most of Owen's letters were written ... Letter 480 makes plain the frequency of Susan and Wilfred's correspondence, as well as the difficulties of communicating in war.