Old Soldier Sahib

By Frank Richards

Old Soldier Sahib is like every man's real, ideal army book -- and it is the story of the author's own experiences as a Royal Welch Fusilier in India and Burma at the dawn of the 20th century before the Great War. He tells graphically of barracks life and the life of a recruit in England in the early 1900's, of Indian service, of the military men and routine and the round of events, amusing and dramatic and romantic in the British army.
Recounts with rare and brutal honesty the everyday life of a common soldier in the Indian Empire.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Reading Essentials
• Release date: Feb 11, 2020
• ISBN: 9781773237770

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.