# Ralph Wilmot — Memoirs of an Infantry Officer character guide

> Ralph Wilmot in Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Wilmot

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

## Who they are

A fellow officer, part of the narrator's social and military life.

## In the story

### [VIII: The Second Battalion](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/chapters/viii-the-second-battalion)

Plays the piano in Corbie and at the château, providing a semblance of normalcy.

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

A popular officer who arranges a convivial evening with champagne and piano playing.

### [IX: Hospital and Convalescence](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/chapters/ix-hospital-and-convalescence)

Mentioned as having lost an arm, fueling the narrator's anti-war bitterness.

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

Mentioned as having lost an arm, which fuels the narrator's anti-war bitterness.

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

Mentioned in a memory of a dugout conversation about Sussex, highlighting the contrast between past and present.

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