Library of Wales: Old Soldiers Never Die

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Yn Old Soldiers Never Die ceir gan y Preifat Frank Richards (1883-1961) y cofnod gorau o'r ymladd yn y ffosydd yn ystod y Rhyfel Byd Cyntaf o safbwynt y milwr cyffredin. Mae'r gyfrol hefyd yn deyrnged i'r fyddin a fu farw ar y Ffrynt Gorllewinol yn 1914.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

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 1914.

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Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Frank Richards was born in 1883 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 1890s before joining the Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1901. A veteran soldier who served in British India and many areas of the Western Front, he wrote his seminal account of the Great War from the standpoint of the common soldier, Old Soldiers Never Die , in 1933. This was followed by Old Soldier Sahib , a memoir of his time serving in British India, in 1936. He died in 1961.

Adolygiad y Cyhoeddwr / Publisher Review

'...the greatest account of trench warfare...' --Phil Carradice, BBC 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 1914.