Hedd Wyn
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 107 years ago |
Date of birth | January 13,1887 |
Zodiac sign | Capricorn |
Born | Trawsfynydd |
United Kingdom | |
Date of died | July 31,1917 |
Died | Ypres Salient |
Buried | Artillery Wood Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium |
Parents | Evan Evans |
Mary Evans | |
Literary movements | Romantic poetry |
War poet | |
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ID | 850469 |
Hedd Wyn Life story
Hedd Wyn was a Welsh-language poet who was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele during World War I. He was posthumously awarded the bard's chair at the 1917 National Eisteddfod.