| Timeline |
| 1886 |
Born at Weirleigh, Kent on 8 September |
| 1891 |
Parents separate, father dies a few months later |
| 1905 |
Enters Clare College, Cambridge; studies law and history |
| 1907 |
Leaves Clare College without taking a degree |
| 1914 |
Joins Sussex Yeomanry in August |
| 1915 |
November - Younger brother dies at Gallipoli, Sassoon joins Royal Welch Fusiliers and meets Robert Graves there |
| 1916 |
April - Attends 4th Army School at Flixecourt
May - Sassoon awarded Military Cross for his part in the Raid on Kiel Trench
July - Ill with trench fever, sent home to England to recover |
| 1917 |
The Old Huntsman published |
| 1917 |
February - Back in France, catches German measles and is sent to hospital in Rouen
March - Rejoins 2nd Battalion Royal Welch Fusiliers on the Somme front
April - Receives bullet in shoulder, sent to England
June - Declaration of "wilful defiance"
July - At Craiglockhart Hospital, officially referred with shell-shock; meets Wilfred Owen
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| 1918 |
Counter-Attack published |
| 1918 |
March - Posted with Royal Welch Fusliers in Palestine
April - Leaves Palestine for France
July - Shot in the head by 'friendly fire' invalided back to England |
| 1919 |
Accepts post as literary editor of the socialist Daily Herald |
| 1919 |
Officially retires from army |
| 1920 |
Lecture tour of U.S. |
| 1926 |
Satirical Poems published |
| 1928 |
Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man published |
| 1930 |
Memoirs of an Infantry Officer published |
| 1933 |
Marries Hester Gatty |
| 1935 |
Vigils published |
| 1936 |
Sherston’s Progress published |
| 1936 |
Son, George, is born |
| 1938 |
The Old Century and Seven More Years published |
| 1942 |
The Weald of Youth published |
| 1945 |
Siegfried’s Journey published |
| 1945 |
Marriage ends |
| 1953 |
Made an Honourary Fellow at Clare College |
| 1957 |
Sequences published |
| 1957 |
Awarded the Queen's Medal for Poetry |
| 1967 |
Dies 1 September at Heytesbury House in Wiltshire |
