Who wrote "We are the Dead. Short days ago / We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, / Loved and were loved, and now we lie / In Flanders fields"?
Isaac Rosenberg
Thomas Hardy
John McCrae
Wilfred Owen
Who wrote - "'Jack fell as he’d have wished,' the Mother said, / And folded up the letter that she’d read. / 'The Colonel writes so nicely.' Something broke / In the tired voice that quavered to a choke. / She half looked up. 'We mothers are so proud / Of our dead soldiers.' Then her face was bowed."
Siegfried Sassoon
John Oxenham
Rupert Brooke
Ivor Gurney
Who wrote "When you see millions of the mouthless dead / Across your dreams in pale battalions go, / Say not soft things as other men have said, / That you'll remember. For you need not so"
Owen Seaman
Charles Hamilton Sorley
Robert Nichols
One of the best known WWI poems, by Wilfred Owen, ends: My friend, you would not tell with such high zest To children, ardent for some desperate glory, The old lie: _______________________________ How does the Latin phrase that follows translate into English?
Patriotism is the noblest form of love
The art of war is the most magnificent
Fame and fortune await the man who is brave in battle
It is sweet and fitting to die for one's country
What was the nationality of John McCrae, author of the famous lines: In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses row on row
American
English
Canadian
Scottish
Wilfred Owen was killed in action in 1918 when he was 25 years old. How long was it from the end of the war when Owen was killed?
One hour
One day
One week
One month
Siegfried Sassoon is, perhaps, the best-known First World War poet. He wrote, in "Counter-Attack", "He crouched and flinched, dizzy with galloping fear,/Sick for escape - loathing the strangled horror/And butchered, frantic gestures of the dead." How did Siegfried Sassoon die?
From machine gun fire at the Battle of the Somme
Of tuberculosis
From enemy fire during the Battle of the St. Quentin Canal
Of old age
Charles Hamilton Sorley wrote the poem "When you see Millions ...": "When you see Millions of the mouthless dead/Across your dreams in pale battalions go,/Say not soft things as other men have said,/That you'll remember. For you need not so." How did Charles Hamilton Sorley die?
Of wounds at the Battle of the Somme
Shot in the head by a sniper at the Battle of Loos
Of gangrene
Of a wound turned septic after the Battle of Cambrai
Wilfrid Owen is one of the best-known First World War poets, and deservedly so. In his poem "Mental Cases", he writes "These are men whose minds the Dead have ravished./Memory fingers in their hair of murders,/Multitudinous murders they once witnessed./Wading sloughs of flesh these helpless wander,/Treading blood from lungs that had loved laughter." How did Wilfred Owen die?
In a trench at Ypres, Belgium
Of pneumonia at his home in Shropshire, England
As a sapper at the Somme, France
On a bridge at Ors, France
Rupert Brooke wrote these lines about WWI in his poem "The Soldier": "If I should die, think only this of me:/That there's some corner of a foreign field/That is forever England." How did Rupert Brooke die?
From blood poisoning on a troop ship
Of wounds at the Battle of Basra
Of enteric fever at Gallipoli
From chlorine gas at the Second Battle of Ypres
