Photographer unknown 

Richard Aldington as an Officer 

July 1918 

Illustration from Richard Aldington: An Intimate Portrait by Alister Kershaw and F.-J. Temple, Southern Illinois University Press, 1966. Photograph of Aldington in uniform as an officer In the Royal Sussex Regiment. H.D. saw him as “a great over-sexed officer” (Bid Me to Live, Dial Press, New York, 1960). He was to be a participant in the Battle of Cambrai in 1918.

From the Collection of Simon Hewett