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Wilfred Owen is perhaps the best known of the First World War poets and was born at Plas Wilmot near Oswestry. His family later moved to Birkenhead - where his father worked for the Great Western Railway, becoming stationmaster at Woodside station - and subsequently to Shrewsbury. He was a second lieutenant throughout the war, and was awarded the military cross in October 1918; shortly afterwards he was killed in action, just one week before the armistice. He is commemorated here close to St Oswald's Church.