Born Matfield, Kent in 1886 into a rich Jewish family. His aunt edited the Observer and Sunday Times. His first love was country life and pursuits such as hunting and cricket which inspired his Memoirs of a Fox-Hunting Man
		He later became sympathetic to the cause of the miners: this was early evidence of his more socialist leanings.
		Sassoon’s early poetry described as, 'Pleasant uninspired verse about the country’ by his contemporary Rupert Brooke.
		In 1914 Sassoon joins the Sussex Yeomanry. He breaks an arm falling from a horse. In 1915 he goes to the Front.
		In 1916 he is with the Royal Welch Fusiliers at the Western Front. He is brought back wounded from No Man's Land after capturing a trench full of Germans single-handed – an act for which he wins the Military Cross
		Invalided home later in 1916, Sassoon takes a pacifist stance after a loss of faith in ethics and strategy. He was one of the first poets to be critical of the war.
		In 1917 in the Battle of Arras he is wounded in the neck. He is sent to Craiglockhart for treatment for shell shock by W. H. Rivers. Meets Wilfred Owen.
		In 1920 he becomes the editor of the socialist newspaper the Daily Herald.
		Later writes his Memoirs of an Infantry Officer.
		Dies in 1967