Hedd Wyn
Sign in to saveWelsh poet who was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele (1887–1917)
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 4
Top works
- The Shepherds War Poet
- Cerddi'r Bugail
- Berger Poéte Combattant
- Compact Wales
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 4
- Total plays
- 21
Tags
poetcymraegcymru aka wales
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Evans
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
- Place of birth
- Trawsfynydd
- Place of death
- Ypres
- Occupation
- writer
- Languages spoken
- Welsh
- Conflict
- World War I
- Military branch
- British Army
- Image
- Hedd Wyn 01(a-dg).JPG
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- Commons category
- Hedd Wyn
- date of birth
- 1887-01-13
- date of death
- 1917-07-31
- pseudonym
- Hedd Wyn
- archives at
- National Library of Wales
- different from
- Hedd Wyn
- place of burial
- Artillery Wood Cemetery
- birth name
- Ellis Humphrey Evans
- military casualty classification
- killed in action
- name in native language
- Ellis Humphrey Evans
- P12749
- Capodrise
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