Hedd Wyn

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Welsh poet who was killed on the first day of the Battle of Passchendaele (1887-1917)

WritersLived 1887 to 1917 · aged 30

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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.

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The "Lord Kitchener Wants You" recruitment poster from 1914.

The grave of Hedd Wyn at Artillery Wood Cemetery, Boezinge, Belgium.

The Black Chair (Y Gadair Ddu) is on permanent display at his family farm near Trawsfynydd

The statue of Hedd Wyn in his home village of Trawsfynydd.

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Chair of the National Eisteddfod

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Robin Llwyd ab OwainAlso won Chair of the National Eisteddfod

Writers born in the 1880s 5

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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. Evans, who had been awarded several chairs for his poetry, was inspired to take the Bardic name Hedd Wyn from the way sunlight penetrated the mist in the Meirionnydd valleys.

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