West Sussex artist's World War One memoir and paintings published
Sussex Record Society and West Sussex Record Office have collaborated to publish Ralph Ellis’s illustrated memoir.
Ralph Ellis, born in Arundel in 1885, joined the Royal Sussex Regiment on the outbreak of war in 1914 and served in the trenches.
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Hide AdEllis saw action in the Battle of Loos and the Battle of the Somme. He was left permanently disabled after being wounded by shrapnel at Ypres in 1917.
The memoir, written during his long period of convalescence, contains sketches and paintings of Ellis’s comrades, local scenes and the destruction wreaked by war.
His accompanying text records in detail the reality of life in the trenches, and the result comes promised as a powerful and compelling account of an ordinary soldier’s experience of war.