Served in The Great War with Staff Sergeant Clarence Berry. Joined the Manchester Regiment, 2nd Battalion in July 1916 where they were deployed in France. In the Spring of 2017, during a battle near Savy Wood, Wilfred my have first encountered The Piper. He was hit by a mortar during this battle and presumed dead. A scouting party found him in the crater almost two weeks later. At a hospital he was declared miraculously free of injury, but suffering from a severe case of shell shock.
Allegedly, Wilfred claimed that The Piper had commanded him to write about The War. After a brief hospital stay he was sent back to Britain to recuperate at Craiglockhart. He returned to the2nd Manchesters in July of 1918. He spent the remainder of his life writing poetry about war. Wilfred Owen died crossing the canal at Sambre-Oise one week before the official armistice.