1883 - 1961
Francis Philip Woodruff Welsh Author
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| First Name |
Francis
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| Middle Name |
Philip
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| Last Name |
Woodruff
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| Full Name at Birth |
Francis Philip Woodruff
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| Alternative Name |
Francis Philip Woodruff, Frank Richards
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| Birthday |
31st May, 1883
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| Birthplace |
Monmouthshire, Wales
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| Died |
August, 1961
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| Nationality |
Welsh
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| Occupation |
Author
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| Official Websites |
www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/blogwales/posts/Frank-Richards-the-private-soldier-in-World-War-One
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Frank Richards a.k.a. Francis Philip Woodruff DCM, MM (June 1883 – August 1961) was a World War I soldier and author. Born in Monmouthshire, he was orphaned at the age of nine, and was then brought up by his aunt and uncle in the Blaina area of the South Wales Valleys in industrial Monmouthshire. The uncle, his mother's twin brother, and surnamed Richards, adopted Frank who then changed his surname. During the 1890s Frank Richards worked as coal miner and joined Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1901, serving in the British Empire forces in British India under the British Raj and Burma from 1902 to 1909, after which he transferred to the reserves.
He is best known as the author of one of the most widely acclaimed memoirs of the Great War to be written by a ranker, Old Soldiers Never Die.
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