page_title: 1918 in poetry
section_title: Killed in World War I
hierarchical_section_title: 1918 in poetry / Deaths / Killed in World War I
context_page_description: Nationality words link to articles with information on the nation's poetry or literature.
context_section_description: January 28 – John McCrae (born 1872), Canadian poet, author of "In Flanders Fields" and lieutenant colonel serving as a field surgeon in the war, from pneumonia
  April 1 – Isaac Rosenberg (born 1890), English war poet, killed in Fampoux in the Somme at dawn (there is a dispute as to whether his death occurred at the hands of a sniper or in close combat); first buried in a mass grave, but in 1926, his remains are identified and reinterred at Bailleul Road East Cemetery Plot V, St. Laurent-Blangy, Pas de Calais, France
  July 30 – Joyce Kilmer (born 1886), American, killed in Second Battle of the Marne in France after volunteering to join Major William "Wild Bill" Donovan's First Battalion to lead the day's attack; while scouting, Kilmer is shot in the head near the village of Seringes; posthumously awarded the Croix de Guerre
  November 4 – Wilfred Owen (born 1893), English war poet, killed in action in France (see Events above)
  John Munro (Iain Rothach) (born 1889), Scottish Gaelic poet, killed serving with the Seaforth Highlanders
  See also Guillaume Apollinaire below
caption: Sgt. Joyce Kilmer, American poet and a member of the 69th Volunteer Infantry Unit
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