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Source wikipedia Hedd Wyn  (born  Ellis Humphrey Evans , 13 January 1887 – 31 July 1917) was a  Welsh-language   poet  who was killed on the first day of the  Battle of Passchendaele  during  World War I . He was posthumously awarded the  bard's chair  at the 1917  National Eisteddfod . Evans, who had been awarded several chairs for his poetry, was inspired to take the bardic name  Hedd Wyn  ( Welsh :  blessed peace ) from the way sunlight penetrated the mist in the  Meirionnydd  valleys. Born in the village of  Trawsfynydd ,  North Wales , Evans wrote much of his poetry while working as a  shepherd  on his family's hill farm. His style, which was influenced by  romantic poetry , was dominated by themes of nature and religion. He also wrote several  war poems  following the outbreak of war on the  Western Front  in 1914. Ellis Humphrey Evans was born on 13 January 1887 in Pen Lan, a house in the middle of  Trawsfynydd ,  Meirionydd ,  Wales . He was the eldest of