Ten Years in India, in the 16th Queen's Lancers, and Three Years in South Africa, in the Cape Corps Levies

A veteran non-commissioned officer recalls years of service with the 16th Queen's Lancers in India and later with the Cape Corps Levies in South Africa, narrating campaigns, sieges, and cavalry engagements he witnessed. The memoir blends battle descriptions and marching life with anecdotes, hunting episodes, and observations on local manners and customs among the peoples encountered. It shifts between action-filled episodes and reflective passages on comradeship, hardship, and camp routine, offering firsthand sketches of operations, landscape, and the personal costs of military service.