Tuesday, 4 July 2017
4 July 1916 Siegfried Sassoon’s RWF battalion goes into the trenches near Mametz Wood
Saturday, 1 July 2017
ROYAL WELSH FUSILIERS FIRST WORLD SURVIVORS
At the end of the cataclysmic conflict of the First World War some units took photographs of those soldiers who had started and finished the war in the same unit. Numbers were understandably small when considered those who were killed, 10,000 Royal Welshmen, wounded or due to their service at the front impacting their health making them unable to continue to serve. These photos are of 1 and 4 RWF who would have gone to war with a relatively well established and experienced group of soldiers. Many would have been friends for many years prior to the start of the war and so the impact of casualties would have had a big impact on those who survived.
30 June 1916
30 June 1916 Siegfried Sassoon is notified that he has been awarded the Military Cross.
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