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Birth
Wilfred Owen was born in Plas Wilmot near Oswestry in Shropshire, into a family of English and Welsh descent. -
1913
Owen taught for a year in Bordeaux at the Berlitz School of Languages -
1915
Owen enlisted in the British army -
1918
he was decorated for bravery -
Death
he was killed in a machine gun attack just seven days before the armistice -
1920
Dulce et Decorum est was published