Birthplace of Ellis Humphrey Evans HEDD WYN in 1887 at Trawsfynydd Gwynedd North Wales UK
Ellis Humphrey Evans HEDD WYN was born 1887 at Penlan, Trawsfynydd, later the family moved to his father's old home at the Ysgwrn. He started to write poetry early, and won his first chair at Bala in 1907. He was called up to the army in 1917 and went to fight in Flanders. In the battle of Passchendale with numerous others, he was killed. In the same year the National Eisteddfod was held at Birkenhead. In the Eisteddfod pavillion on the 6th September the adjudicator announced the victorious bard under the pen-name of 'Fluer-de -lis' was worthy of being chaired having written a poem called Yr Arwr (The Hero). The audience were told the winner was Private - Hedd Wyn - and that he had been killed on the battlefield a month earlier, the chair was draped in black. In 1991 a Welsh Language film was made by S4C about him, it was Oscar-nominated for Best Foreign Language film.
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Location: Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, North Wales, UK
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