But when he married outside the Jewish faith, to Theresa Thornycroft, from a well-known family of English sculptors, Alfred Ezra was disinherited. His parents separated when Siegfried was 4.
After leaving school, he spent his time playing cricket, hunting and writing, supported by an allowance from his family. He published his first book of poetry in Sassoon joined the Sussex Yeomanry shortly before the outbreak of World War I, but his participation in the fighting was delayed after he broke his arm while riding, and only in May did he receive his commission in the Royal Welch Fusiliers.
The same month that Sassoon was dispatched to France, November , his brother Hamo was killed in the Battle of Gallipoli, a loss that affected Siegfried deeply. As a soldier, Siegfried showed great heroism, in particular when he singlehandedly stormed a German trench, manned by 60 enemy soldiers, along the Hindenburg Line. By , as the war dragged on and he lost more friends and comrades, Sassoon became disillusioned.
Home on leave that June, he decided not to return to the front. Instead of subjecting him to a court martial, the authorities decided to treat Sassoon as someone suffering from shell shock and sent him to Craiglockart War Hospital, near Edinburgh, for treatment.
Fearing for his friend, Robert Graves intervened and successfully argued that Sassoon was suffering from shell shock and therefore not responsible for his actions. The guilt of not being with his comrades ultimately drove Sassoon to re-enter the war where he remained until a head wound rendered him unfit for duty in June During the years following the conflict, Sassoon became an established literary figure and continued to popularize his poetry and attempt to show readers the horrors of war.
He also became more involved in politics and published a number of fictional and non-fictional works about his war experiences. Although these works are not as well-known as his poetry, they offer insight into the experiences of soldiers during the First World War and also provide invaluable context for his wartime poetry.
Section Editor: Frederik Schulze. Ortolano, Scott: Sassoon, Siegfried Loraine , in: online. International Encyclopedia of the First World War, ed.
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