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