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Historic Hospital Remembers War Poets A Century On

Two of the world's most famous war poets are being remembered at the former hospital where they were treated.
 
Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen met and found their voices while recovering in the military facility for officers suffering from shell-shock.
 
Craiglockhart Hydropathic, in Edinburgh, became a hospital a century ago, treating more than 1,800 men. It now serves as a university.
 
 
 

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