First World War Poetry Digital Archive

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Wilfred Owen returned to France in the summer of 1918 in time for the great British advance against the Germans. On the 4th November, only a week before the war ended, he was killed leading his men as they attacked across a canal. He is buried, along with his soldiers, in Ors cemetery in France. His mother received the news of his death on the 11th November, the day the war ended.