BİRİNCİ DÜNYA SAVAŞI ŞAİRİ SİEGFRİED SASSOON VE BİR GELİBOLU GAZİSİ
WORLD WAR I POET SIEGFRIED SASSOON AND A GALLIPOLI VETERAN

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with the meeting of Gallipoli veteran Vivian de Sola Pinto who, after the Gallipoli battles, had been detailed to serve in the western front where Siegfried Sassoon, who would later become bitter critic of the war, happened to be his company commander. We get hold of Vivian de Sola Pinto by the poem he wrote during the Gallipoli battles where an English soldier challenges a Turkish sniper. This poem took us to Pinto’s biography from which we got the details of his early years up to the time of his decision to join the army, his being detailed to ‘A’ company as second-in-command to Captain Siegfried Sassoon and their talks on literary matters. Despite the fact that Siegfried Sassoon is a well-known poet of the Great War, it is not widely known that his brother Hamo Sassoon was shot in Gallipoli and eventually died of wounds. This research also examines the poems written by Vivian de Sola Pinto and Siegfried Sassoon.

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