Who wrote the play "Journey's End", based on his experiences in World War I?

“Journey's End” is a 1928 play set in the trenches near Saint-Quentin, Aisne, towards the end of the First World War. The story plays out in the officers' dugout of a British Army infantry company from 18 March 1918 to 21 March 1918, providing a glimpse of the officers' lives in the last few days before the major German offensive known as Operation Michael.

It is a carefully crafted work that captures the drama, tedium and terror of soldiers on foreign soil bracing for an onslaught by overwhelming enemy forces. “Journey’s End” gives close attention to a handful of soldiers facing both an implacable foe and their own mortality. It has been praised for its realism and avoidance of cliches and rhetoric, neither staunchly patriotic nor polemically anti-war.

The play was written by Robert Cedric (R. C.) Sherriff (1896 - 1975) who based the material on his own experiences. Sherriff served as an officer in the 9th battalion of the East Surrey Regiment in the First World War, taking part in the fighting at Vimy Ridge and Loos. He was severely wounded at Passchendaele in 1917.

Sherriff studied history at New College, Oxford from 1931 to 1934. He wrote several plays and novels and was also nominated for awards for his screenplays for “Goodbye, Mr. Chips” and “The Dam Busters.” He was a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Society of Antiquaries of London.

The picture is of Colin Clive as the lead character Stanhope in the 1929 production of "Journey's End."