Francis Philip Woodruff
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Francis Woodruff (Born 1883, in Monmouthshire) was orphaned at the age of nine, he was then brought up by his aunt and uncle in the Blaina area. The uncle, his mother's twin brother and surnamed Richards, adopted Frank who then changed his name. During the 1890s Richards worked as coal miner and joined Royal Welch Fusiliers in 1901, then served in India and Burma from 1902 to 1909, after which he transferred to the reserves. In 1933 he published his memoir Old Soldiers Never Die—with the help of Robert Graves—about his time on the Western Front, where he was awarded the DCM and MM while always refusing promotion from Private. In 1936 he published a second memoir, Old Solider Sahib, covering his time in the British Army of India.
He wrote a monography on the 350 years the English spent in India in two volumes entitled The Men Who Ruled India consisting in Vol. 1: The Founders in 1953 and Vol 2: The Guardians in 1954, dedicating the work "To the peoples of India and Pakistan whose tranquility was our care, whose division is our failure and whose continuance in the family of nations to which we belong is our Memorial" ProEdits 14:47, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
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