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Deep Under Turfy Grass by David Breeze & Outrider Anthems

New contemporary song setting by local composer David Breeze, for Wilfred Owen’s Dunsden poem Deep Under Turfy Grass. Written at Dunsden between October 1912 and June 1913 after Wilfred Owen assisted at the funerals of Alice Mary Allen and her four year old daughter Hilda Agnes who died in an accident on Dunsden Green. With

This is the all saints church where Dunsden Owen worked as an assistant to the vicar

All Saints Church, where Wilfred worked as assistant to the vicar

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Wilfred in Dunsden

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Vivian Rampton and his siblings outside Vivian Cottage

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Members travel to Ors, France for annual Owen commemorations

Upcoming Events

Henley Quakers Eye Witness Stories

Henley Meeting House, 45 Northfield End, RG9 2JJ

7pm

Snowdrops at All Saints

All Saints Church, Dunsden

10am to 5pm, Sunday 17 February

Quakers, pacifism and the ‘war to end all wars’

Dunsden Village Hall, RG4 9QG

November 27, 2018

From 7.30pm

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The Dunsden Owen Association exists to celebrate the life and work of the First World War poet Wilfred Owen who lived in the village of Dunsden, South Oxfordshire from 1911–13.

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