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Siegfried Sassoon(1886-1967)
Sassoon was born into a wealthy family. He studied in Marlborough College and Clare College, Cambridge, he left without graduating in 1907.
Sassoon first became a cavalry trooper in the Sussex Yeomanry before going to the Royal Welch Fusiliers as an officer
Sassoon got the nickname 'Mad Jack' for his fearless courage on the Western Front, often volunteering to lead night raids.
He had a negative attitude at the end. Sassoon discussed how he believed that the war he entered for defense became a war of aggression and conquest. He said how much suffering he said and he no longer can support those who he believes are evil.

Wilfred Owen(1893-1918)
Owen was born in Oswestry, Shropshire. He went to school at Birkenhead …show more content…

Dix was the eldest son of Franz and Louise. His father worked in an iron foundry and his mother was a seamstress. At an early age, Dix has been interested in art.
Like any other men who was eligible to join the war, Dix volunteered to fight for his country when war was declared, and like everyone else, he too thought the war would end quickly.
Dix was originally assigned to an artillery unit. Then in 1915, he was transferred as a NCO to a machine gun unit. Dix helped defend the line against the great British advance on the Somme. Sadly, Dix became wounded several times during battle. Around the end of the war, Dix took a nearly fatal hit on his neck. A medic was able to stop the bleeding and he was moved back to an aid station. The war ended with Dix still in a hospital bed.
Dix was deeply affected by the war. He kept describing a recurring nightmare in which he crawled through bombed out houses (signs of PTSD). His war experience dominated most of his artwork. Dix tried to capture the fields of Flanders with military trenches and covered with bodies. In 1924, Karl Nierendorf (influential art dealer) published Dix's biggest achievement, a fifty piece portfolio of etchings entitled Der Krieg (The War). Dix’s artwork captured the trauma of the Great

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