Letters from past

A Soldier’s Declaration

Context: In 1917, Siegfried L. Sassoon was a British poet, serving as a soldier in the First World War. Sassoon served in the Royal Welch Fusiliers in France and Palestine. After being wounded twice on the battlefield when called to return to the trenches, Sassoon refused. Sasson wrote the following letter to the British military leadership in the year 1917 against the backdrop of WWI. The context of the letter seems uncannily similar to today’s world where the war between Russia and Ukraine are on for more than two years now.