What is recorded here
This slate commemorative plaque records: The Third Southern General Hospital occupied this site between 1915 and 1919. The poets Robert Graves (1895-1985) and Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) were both patients here. Recorded plaque organisation: Somerville College.
Siegfried Sassoon and Robert Graves, renowned poets of World War I, convalesced at the Third Southern General Hospital; their wartime poetry offers profound insights into the conflict's brutal realities.
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