Source D
Provenance:

Purpose: The purpose of the source is to compassionately bring out the kind of experiences that people had to go through during the First World War and to document his memories in writing.

Audience: The audience of Siegfried Sassoon’s poems was

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Author: As an officer in World War I, he was wounded and lauded twice with medals for bravery. His poetry—at times violent, always honest—expressed his conviction of the brutality and waste of war in grim, forceful, realistic verse.

Evaluate:

This source is useful to my enquiry as it because the source is primary and therefore no information could have been left over time.

The source is useful as it was written at the time of WW1 therefore the information in the source will be accurate and reliable as it is a first hand account and Sassoon would not have forgotten the details when writing the original poem.

The source is useful to my enquiry as it tells me of what it was like fighting trench warfare at night. This is useful as this would have been a main feature of trench warfare because it shows me that soldiers on the front line would not have had a moments peace.

The source is of limited use, as it does not mention what the soldiers did to avoid the bombardment. This makes the source less useful as I only know of the German bombardment not how the allies defended themselves from it. This would have been a major feature of trench warfare and the fact that it is