Waterloo + 200 years (merged)

[daftandbarmy]

Rifleman Harris dictated an excellent account of his service history to Captain Curling, leaving a first class impression of the Napoleonic period:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Recollections_of_Rifleman_Harris

Too bad the Canadian Army doesn't do the same more often these days.

 

[Kirkhill]

Another favourite of mine is "Twenty Five Years with the Rifle Brigade" by William Surtees.  He joined the army in 1795, the Experimental Corps in 1802 and retired as a Quartermaster in 1827.

My favourite part was his jaunt across Denmark in 1807 in charge of his battalion's baggage.  Losing contact with the battalion he cut across country independently to arrive at the designated RV ahead of his battalion.

 

[daftandbarmy]

Geeze, what did daftandbarmy do to deserve that kind of treatment?  ;D

Must have had my mess bill paid up for a change, meaning they had nothing left to lose...  ;D