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WW1 War Poets' "Secret" Hiding Place Revealed

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  1. GRW

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    Not entirely sure why it was "secret" and not just "unknown".
    "Researchers have finally pinpointed the location where three of the greatest war poets held mystery meeting 100 years ago.
    In 1917, Wilfred Owen was diagnosed with shellshock and treated at the Craiglockhart Hospital in Edinburgh which led to a friendship with another war poet, Siegfried Sassoon.

    They then met with the third poet, Robert Graves, which has been described as “potentially the most powerful meeting of English literature in the 20th century”

    The meeting place has been a secret for 100 years.

    But now, an American University has said that the location was Baberton Golf Club in Juniper Green, Edinburgh.

    Neil McLennan, a former head of history at Tynecastle School, who now works as a senior lecturer at the University of Aberdeen has spent more than 10 years researching the life of Wilfred Owen.

    He said: “Confirming this venue has been something that I really got between my teeth.

    “We always knew the three men met in Edinburgh but not where. It was thought to be a golf club owing to Sassoon’s love of the game.”
    Mystery of WW1 poets’ meeting place solved in Edinburgh golf club
     

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