Neither Wilfred Owen nor Rupert Brooke survived the conflict, with Owen being killed in action just a week before the Armistice, Brooke died from sepsis following a mosquito bite while sailing for Gallipoli with the British Mediterranean Expeditionary Force. Owen and Siegfried Sassoon were both decorated (Military Cross) for bravery.
Attack
Siegfried Sassoon CBE MC (1886-1967)
Read by Gemma Arterton
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Wilfred Owen MC (1893-1918)
Read by Christopher Eccleston
The Soldier
Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
Read by Sophie Okonedo
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