# Colonel Kinjack — Memoirs of an Infantry Officer character guide

> Colonel Kinjack in Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Kinjack, a Kinjack I 'd never met before

**First appearance:** 0000-i-at-the-army-school

## Snapshot

A commanding officer whose brisk authority and unexamined assumptions about the War embody the military machine the narrator must either serve or defy.

## Who they are

Kinjack presides over the narrator's corner of the war with the confidence of a man who has never doubted his orders. Where Tyrrell questions and Dottrell endures, Kinjack represents the institutional weight that makes dissent feel like betrayal. His presence in the early arc forces the narrator to weigh personal conviction against the loyalties and hierarchies that have shaped him.

## In the story

### [I: At the Army School](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/chapters/i-at-the-army-school)

Mentioned as the one who ordered Sherston to the Army School.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/chapters/i)

Mentioned as possibly having sent Sherston to the school.

### [II: The Raid](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/chapters/ii-the-raid)

Battalion commander, not keen on the raid, speaks straight to Brigade.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/chapters/i)

Mentioned as the one Barton is 'skiting' to about the raid.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/chapters/ii)

Not keen on the raid and spoke straight to the Brigade Major.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/chapters/iii)

Battalion commander, orders narrator to stay in trench and count men.

### [III: Before the Push](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/chapters/iii-before-the-push)

The commanding officer, full of confidence about the upcoming attack and the French holding at Verdun.

### [II](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/chapters/ii)

The commanding officer, full of confidence about the French holding at Verdun, and recipient of the salmon.

### [IV: Battle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/chapters/iv-battle)

Angrily reprimanded the narrator for not returning with his company bombers and for failing to send a message about the captured trench.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/chapters/i)

Inspects wire gaps and orders them cut.

### [III](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/chapters/iii)

Leads the battalion on the night operation, orders A Company forward, and later jokes with the narrator about his trench capture.

### [Escape](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/chapters/v-escape)

Leads the Battalion during the march to La Chaussée, showing pride in his troops.

### [I](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/chapters/i)

Rides at the front of the Battalion as they march to La Chaussée, looking thoughtful and indulgent.

### [IV](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/chapters/iv)

Leaves the battalion to take command of a Brigade, as mentioned in Dottrell's letter.

## Links

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