Nobody Of Any Importance: A Foot Soldier's Memoir Of World War One - Phil Sutcliffe

Sam Sutcliffe grew up a poor boy in north London, enlisted at 16, fought on the front line at Gallipoli 1915, the Somme 1916, and Arras 1918 where he was taken prisoner. Somehow he stayed lucky, survived – and, in his seventies, he finally unleashed his remarkable near-total-recall memory and wrote it all down, childhood to demob.
In this talk, his son Phil will talk about his father's war service which culminated in his publishing his work as 'Nobody Of Any Importance: A Foot Soldier's Memoir Of World War I' Phil will give an overview of his father's early life and service and then look in more detail at his service at Gallipoli where he landed at Suvla Bay in September