Owen’s ‘loot’ bugle to play at his grave
Wilfred Owen A BUGLE that Wilfred Owen took from a dead German soldier in the First World War will be played at the poet’s grave to mark the centenary of his death.
Its sounding in Ors, northern France, today will be the first time it has been played in public.
Owen, who wrote Dulce et Decorum est, died on November 4, 1918, during the battle to cross the Sambre-oise canal at Ors.
Fiona Macdonald, of the Wilfred Owen Association, said he wrote about the bugle in a letter to his brother Colin a year earlier.
She said: “He said, ‘I’ve got some loot’.
He was going to give it to Colin but had grown too fond of it.”
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