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1915
May
03
John McCrae writes "In Flanders Fields"
On 3 May 1915 near Ypres the Canadian doctor John McCrae, a day after a friend's burial, wrote "In Flanders Fields", the poem behind the remembrance poppy.
1916
December
15
Barbusse's Under Fire wins the Prix Goncourt
On 15 December 1916 the Prix Goncourt went to Henri Barbusse's Under Fire, a stark picture of a French squad in the trenches, by a volunteer from the front.
1917
July
30
Siegfried Sassoon's protest
On 30 July 1917 the Commons heard the protest of the poet Siegfried Sassoon, a decorated officer who refused to serve on in a war he saw as wilfully prolonged.
1918
October
31
Death of Egon Schiele
On 31 October 1918 the painter Egon Schiele died of the Spanish flu in Vienna, three days after his wife Edith, who was six months pregnant. He was 28.
November
04
Death of Wilfred Owen
On 4 November 1918, a week before the Armistice, Wilfred Owen, 25, one of the greatest English poets of the war, was killed crossing the canal at Ors.
09
Death of Guillaume Apollinaire
On 9 November 1918 the poet Guillaume Apollinaire, son of the Pole Angelika Kostrowicka, weakened by a war head wound, died of Spanish flu in Paris. He was 38.