In June 1916, he was commissioned as a second lieutenant and in late December he left to fight in France. Owen returned to England in 1915, a year after the outbreak of World War I, and enlisted in the army. In 1913, he returned home to recover from a respiratory illness, after which he taught English at the Berlitz School of Languages in France and then spent another year in France tutoring two boys in a Catholic family. He helped care for the poor and sick but chose not to pursue a career in the church. He became a lay assistant to a Church of England vicar in Dunsden, Oxfordshire.
They moved to Shrewsbury, Shropshire, and Owen graduated from Shrewsbury Technical College in 1911. The family moved to Birkenhead in the northwest, where Owen attended school until 1907. He was the oldest of four children born to Thomas Owen, a railway station master, and Susan Owen.
Wilfred Owen was born on March 18, 1893, in the county of Shropshire, England, near the Welsh border. Owen’s mission was to write about what he called “the pity of war”-especially modern war waged with the kind of deadly weaponry that the world had not before experienced. “Anthem for Doomed Youth” is typical of his work, which brought the cruel reality-as well as the folly of the war-into clear focus through technically skilled and innovative poetry. Owen is often regarded as the finest of the English World War I poets.
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