Editing Hedd Wyn (section)

===Third Battle of Ypres and death===
[[File:Hedd Wyn Grave at Artillery Wood Cemetery 7.jpg|thumb|upright|The grave of Hedd Wyn at [[Artillery Wood Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery|Artillery Wood Cemetery]], [[Boezinge|Boezinge, Belgium]].]]
Hedd Wyn was fatally wounded within the first few hours of the start of the [[Third Battle of Ypres]] on 31 July, 1917. He fell during the [[Battle of Pilckem Ridge]] which had begun at 3:50 a.m. with a heavy bombardment of the German lines (this was the opening attack in what became known as [[Battle of Passchendaele]]). However, the troops' [[Trench warfare|advance]] was hampered by incoming artillery and machine gun fire, and by heavy rain turning the battlefield to swamp.

Private Evans, as part of the 15th (Service) Battalion (1st London Welsh), was advancing towards a German strongpoint –created within the ruins of the Belgian hamlet of Hagebos ("Iron Cross")– when he was hit.<ref name="Hagebos">{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-21439931|title=Flanders community remembers Welsh dead in 'dark days' of World War I|work=BBC News|date= 13 February 2013}}</ref> In an interview conducted in 1975 by [[St Fagans National Museum of History|St Fagans National History Museum]], Simon Jones, a veteran of the [[Royal Welsh Fusiliers]], recalled, <blockquote>"We started over Canal Bank at [[Ypres]], and he was killed half way across Pilckem. I've heard many say that they were with Hedd Wyn and this and that, well I was with him... I saw him fall and I can say that it was a nosecap shell in his stomach that killed him. You could tell that... He was going in front of me, and I saw him fall on his knees and grab two fistfuls of dirt... He was dying, of course... There were stretcher bearers coming up behind us, you see. There was nothing – well, you'd be breaking the rules if you went to help someone who was injured when you were in an attack."<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/rhagor/article/1920/ |title=Welsh bard falls in the battle fields of Flanders |publisher=Museumwales.ac.uk |date=2007-04-25 |access-date=2014-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130621234348/http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/rhagor/article/1920 |archive-date=21 June 2013 |url-status=dead }}</ref></blockquote>

Soon after being wounded, Hedd Wyn was carried to a first-aid post. Still conscious, he asked the doctor "Do you think I will live?" though it was clear that he had little chance of surviving; he died at about 11:00 a.m. Among the fatalities that day was the [[Irish people|Irish]] [[war poet]], [[Francis Ledwidge]], who was "blown to bits" while drinking tea in a shell hole.

Ellis H. Evans was buried in Section II, Row F, Grave 11 at [[Artillery Wood]] Cemetery, near [[Boezinge]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/100906|title= Casualty details—Evans, Ellis Humphrey|publisher= [[Commonwealth War Graves Commission]]|access-date= 1 March 2010}}</ref> After a petition was submitted to the [[Imperial War Graves Commission]] after the war, his headstone was given the additional words ''Y [[Prifardd]] Hedd Wyn'' (English: "The Chief Bard, Hedd Wyn").