OUTLINE OF SIEGFRIED SASSOON

OUTLINE OF SIEGFRIED SASSOON'S MILITARY SERVICE
1st August 1914	Has Medical Examination and joins Sussex Yeomanry.
1st November 1915	Younger Brother Hamo Watts Sassoon died from wounds at Gallipoli.
24th November 1915	Joins 1st Bn. Royal Welch Fusiliers at Festubert.
	Robert Graves having been transferred from 2nd Bn. joins 1st Bn and meets Sassoon for the first time.
	SASSOON ON THE SOMME
6th December 1915	Battalion leaves for the Somme. (Bois Francais).
23rd April 1916	Attends 4th Army School at Flixecourt.
25th May 1916	Raid on Kiel Trench. Bois Francais. Cpl O'Brien DOW.
	Sassoon awarded M.C. for his part in the raid.
1st July 1916	Sits at Crawley Ridge and watches attack on Fricourt by 10th West Yorks and 7th Green Howards.
4th July 1916	Leaves Bottom Wood for Quadrangle Trench.
	Meets "Fernby" at end of Quadrangle Trench.
	Proceeds down Wood Trench towards Mametz Wood throwing hand-grenades at German soldiers fleeing into the wood.
14th July 1916	Meets Robert Graves in 2nd Bn. R.Welch Fusiliers.
23rd July 1916	Very ill with trench fever.
2nd August 1916	In England recovering.
4th April 1917	With 2nd Bn. Royal Welch Fusliers at Corbie on the Somme. Leaves for Arras.
	SASSOON IN THE BATTLE OF ARRAS
12th April 1917	2nd Bn. Royal Welch Fusliers arrive 3km South West of Wancourt.
16th April 1917	In Tunnel Trench. Receives bullet in shoulder. Sent to England.
15th June 1917	Makes statement re War being prolonged.
July 1917	With Graves's intervention goes to Craiglockhart Hospital.
	SASSOON IN PALESTINE
11th December 1917	At Regimental Depot, Litherland.
7th January 1918	New Barracks, Limerick.
4th March 1918	Posted 25th Bn. Royal Welch Fusliers in Palestine.
7th April 1918	Leaves Palestine for France.
	SASSOON RETURNS TO FRANCE
13th July 1918	In line at St.Floris when he goes out on patrol and is shot when Sgt.Griffiths mistook him for a German.

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