Headstone of Private R. H. Stuckey, East Kent Regiment (the Buffs), died May 5, 1917 age 29 years. Buried at Cabaret Rouge British Cemetery. © 2013 by John M. Shea
The Buffs20820 PrivateR. H. StuckeyE. Kent Regt. (The Buffs)5th May 1917 Age 29A Beloved Life for Home and Country
". . . Our peace-terms remain the same, 'the destruction of Kaiserism and Prussianism'. I don't know what aims this destruction represents.I only know, and declare from the depths of my agony, that these empty words (so often on the lips of the Jingos) mean the destruction of Youth. They mean the whole torment of waste and despair which people refuse to acknowledge or to face; from month to month they dupe themselves with hopes that 'the war will end this year'."
Excerpt from the entry for June 19, 1917, from the diary of Siegfried Sassoon, British poet, author, Second Lieutenant in the Royal Welch Fusiliers, and recipient of the Military Cross for gallantry in action. Sassoon had been wounded, shot through the shoulder by a sniper, in an April 16 attack on the village of Fontaine-lès-Croisilles in the Battle of Arras, and was on convalescent leave in England in June.
Siegfried Sassoon Diaries 1915-1918 by Siegfried Sassoon, page 175, copyright © George Sassoon, 1983; Introduction and Notes Rupert Hart-Davis, 1983, publisher: Faber and Faber, publication date: 1983
1917-06-19, 1917, June, Sassoon statement, R. H. Stuckey, R.H. Stuckey
