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8 rows · Old Soldiers Never Die. Frank Richards. Naval Military Press, - History - Reviews: 1.  · You can never read too many Great War memoirs. Old Soldiers Never Die by Frank Richards does not disappoint. A career enlisted soldier in the Royal Welch Fusiliers of the British Army, he served in British India and Burma in the first years of the twentieth century/5.  · “I have some recollection of my father and mother but will commence my story in the year when I was left an orphan at the age of nine”. Robert Graves wrote [Introduction, Old Soldiers Never Die] that Frank was allowed by his aunt and uncle to believe that he was illegitimate. This may be so, but a boy of eight or nine could be expected to know his parent's names, and to infer that they .

Arguably the greatest of all published memoirs of the Great War, Old Soldiers Never Die is Private Frank Richards' classic account of the war from the standpoint of the regular soldier, and a moving tribute to the army that died on the Western Front in In this remarkable tale, Richards recounts life in the trenches as a member of the famous Royal Welch Fusiliers, with all its death and. Old Soldiers Never Die. Frank Richards. Naval Military Press, - History - pages. 1 Review. One of the finest of all published memoirs of the Great War, truly a classic of its kind. The author had enlisted in in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers (spelling changed from Welch to Welsh in and back to Welch in ) and was a reservist. He went right through the war with the battalion, never missing a battle, winning the DCM and MM and ending up still a private. Here is a typical soldier of the pre regular army, one of the 'Old Contemptibles' and this book is a delight, written in his own unpolished manner.

You can never read too many Great War memoirs. Old Soldiers Never Die by Frank Richards does not disappoint. A career enlisted soldier in the Royal Welch Fusiliers of the British Army, he served in British India and Burma in the first years of the twentieth century. When World War I broke out, his unit was sent to the Western Front where he served the entire four years of the war. “I have some recollection of my father and mother but will commence my story in the year when I was left an orphan at the age of nine”. Robert Graves wrote [Introduction, Old Soldiers Never Die] that Frank was allowed by his aunt and uncle to believe that he was illegitimate. This may be so, but a boy of eight or nine could be expected to know his parent's names, and to infer that they were married. Old Soldiers Never Die. by. Frank Richards. · Rating details · ratings · 14 reviews. Frank Richards was born in in Monmouthshire. Orphaned at nine years old, he was brought up by his aunt and uncle in the industrial Blaina area, and went on to work as a coal miner throughout the s before joining the Royal Welch Fusiliers in