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With The Immortal Seventh Division

by Edmund John Kennedy

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Edmund John Kennedy served with what became known as the Immortal Seventh Division, the British formation that fought through some of the worst engagements of the early Western Front. His memoir, written shortly after the war, is one of the more detailed first-person accounts of that division's experience.

Kennedy covers the formation's training, deployment to the continent, and the major engagements including First Ypres, where the division suffered staggering casualties.

The writing is the careful, slightly formal style common to officer memoirs of the period. The detail is concrete. Names of fellow officers, specific positions on specific days, the small incidents that stayed with the writer afterward.

For readers serious about World War One literature, this sits alongside the better-known memoirs by Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon, and Edmund Blunden, with a focus on the regular Army soldier rather than the literary intellectual. Worth reading for the texture it brings to the military history of 1914 and 1915.

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Edmund John Kennedy

Edmund John Kennedy was an Anglican chaplain whose service with the British Expeditionary Force supplied the firsthand material for With The Immortal Seventh Division. Assigned to the 20th Brigade, he accompanied the Seventh Division during the opening campaigns of the 1914 conflict and the fighting around Ypres.

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First published
1916
Reading time
About 110 minutes
Pages
87
Language
English
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