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W. C. C. Weetman
A First World War officer turned chronicler of his battalion, he wrote a detailed firsthand history of the 1/8th Sherwood Foresters. His book stands out for its close knowledge of training, trench service, and the daily realities behind the regiment’s war record.
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About the author
Best known for The Sherwood Foresters in the Great War 1914–1919, he was identified in the original 1920 edition as Captain W. C. C. Weetman, M.C., Croix de Guerre. The book is a military history of the 1/8th Battalion of the Sherwood Foresters, written by someone who had served with the unit and could describe its wartime experience from the inside.
The surviving public record available here is quite limited, so only a few personal details can be stated confidently. Some library and bookseller records credit him simply as W. C. C. Weetman, while later book metadata expands the name to William Charles Cumming Weetman; because those later summaries are not always fully sourced, it is safest to say that he was a British officer-author associated with the Sherwood Foresters during and just after the First World War.
Readers come to Weetman for clear, direct regimental history rather than literary showmanship. His work preserves the movements, conditions, and service of the battalion in a way that remains valuable to military historians, family researchers, and anyone interested in how soldiers of the Great War recorded their own experience.