The birthplace of war poet Wilfred Owen has gone on the market. Born in 1893 in Oswestry, Shropshire, Owen enlisted in the Army in 1915 and witnessed the trench warfare of World War One firsthand.

Owen is regarded as the greatest poet of World War One. His works about the horrors of trench and gas warfare are still taught in schools today. He was born in Shropshire in 1893 and was beginning ...