# Young Fernby — Memoirs of an Infantry Officer character guide

> Young Fernby in Memoirs of an Infantry Officer by Siegfried Sassoon.

**Role:** minor

**Also known as:** Fernby, Little Fernby, gallant young Fernby, dark - haired little Fernby

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

## Who they are

A young officer, noted for his appearance and character.

## Relationships

### [Durley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/characters/durley)

_friendship_

Durley and Young Fernby share a close bond, likely as fellow soldiers and companions in the trenches.

### [Durley](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/characters/durley)

_friendship_

Durley and Young Fernby share a close bond, likely as fellow soldiers and companions in the trenches.

## In the story

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

Present at the bombing post, anxious about the narrator's return, and suggested sending a party to occupy the captured trench.

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

Covers the narrator's advance with a Lewis gun during the trench attack and anxiously awaits his return.

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

Mentioned as one of the officers in the narrator's tent, whose potential death the narrator contemplates.

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

Reported very badly hit and not expected to live after the attack at Ginchy.

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

Mentioned as being on the narrator's right during the attack, later dies from shrapnel wounds in hospital.

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

Remembered as another young victim of the war, dark-haired and gallant.

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