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Wilfred Owen, the Great War poet, was killed on the 4th of November 1918, seven days before the armistice. He was 25. By then he'd only published five poems. But in later decades, he became seen as THE British War Poet; his "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Strange Meeting", "Dulce Et Decorum Est" among those that became inseparable from all memory of the First World War.

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And while he is best known for his poetry of the trenches and the futility of war, his letters show a more complex side; someone who took pride in his status as an officer and in being a soldier.