Unknowing to him Christmas 1917 would be the last Christmas that Wilfred Owen would spend on this earth. He celebrated it in Scarborough at the Clarence Gardens Hotel.
On 19th December he went up to Edinburgh for the weekend . Returning to Craiglockhart:
“Then I went off to Tyncastle. They were in the act of writing Christmas Letters to me! My address was on the Blackboard. And ‘original’ Christmas Cards were all over the room! I am going to see the Gays this afternoon & may stay with them tomorrow. Am feeling very fit, in spite of the wretched weather & journey. “
Christmas in the Clarence Gardens Hotel was ‘very mopish’, mainly because the Commanding Officer, ‘a terrible old misanthrope in the morning’, held an orderly room for punishment – forbidden in King’s Regulations on Christmas Day – and shouted at everyone in sight.
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