Poet Owen hailed with battle bugle

THE centenary of war poet Wilfred Owen’s death has been marked at his grave in France by the sounding of a bugle he took from the battlefield.

Elizabeth Owen, widow of his nephew Peter, attended the moving ceremony in Ors communal cemetery yesterday.

French locals and members of the Wilfred Owen Association gathered to hear Last Post sounded on a bugle that Wilfred took from a dead German during the First World War.

Grace Freeman, a trustee of the association, said: “It was important to make sure his words are not forgotten.

“We all feel privileged to be here.”