# Young Ormand — Memoirs of an Infantry Officer character guide

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

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Ormand, Young Ormand

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

## Snapshot

A good-humoured officer with a gramophone and a temper under his black eyebrows, Ormand is the kind of companion whose ordinariness makes the front bearable.

## Who they are

Ormand joins the Second Battalion alongside the narrator and quickly becomes part of the small circle whose jokes and records briefly drown out the guns. His cheerfulness is genuine but not uncomplicated, and the teasing he endures over 'Lots of Loving' hints at the irritations and affections that hold a platoon together. He matters because he is the war's human texture, not its statistics.

## In the story

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

Present at mess, comments on Barton's ambitions.

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

Present at dinner, leaves early, singing a music hall tune.

### [At the Depot](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/memoirs_of_an_infantry_officer_se/chapters/vi-at-the-depot)

Another old comrade at the camp, pulling wry faces about his next Medical Board which would pass him for General Service.

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

In the hut; anxious about his next Medical Board, which will likely pass him for General Service.

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

Plays cricket in the courtyard of the château.

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

Accompanies the narrator on a walk to Heilly, shares his dislike of the war and his longing for civilian life.

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

Thought of as still with the Second Battalion, part of the narrator's attempt to connect with the front.

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

Remembered by the narrator as a good chap who died miserably in a shell-hole.

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