Neville-Rolfe wrote these reminiscences as a series of articles for the newsletter of the 5th Royal Gurkha Rifles. Describes voyage from India to Marseilles; course in using 'jampot' and 'hairbrush' bombs; hospitalisation after he was wounded and convalescence at Heacham, where he witnessed the first Zeppelin raid on England, January 1915; offensive at Neuve Chapelle, where he escorted 400 German prisoners to divisional headquarters and delivered ammunition up the line, 1915; being wounded again, 1915; posting to Mesopotamia, 1917-1918; the siege of the town of Nejaf, Turkey, the murder of the town's political officer and Neville-Rolfe's task to arrange the murderer's hanging, 1918; and leave in Ceylon, 1918.

Arthur Neville-Rolfe's memoirs relate to the mid 1890s-1908; he joined the Gurkhas in 1908.

Contact copy.

With letters, pages of diary, photographs etc. pasted in. (MS 50)

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Printed.

With attached letter from George Melville-Bolling, Ohio State University, to Herbert Neville-Rolfe regarding the Bolling family's connection to Pocahontas and the Rolfes, 1919, and a press cutting entitled 'Virginia Heraldry' regarding the Rolfes and Bollings, nd [early 20th century].