Old Soldier Sahib

About Frank Richards

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.