Barracks, Bivouacs, and BattlesMick Sullivan was a private soldier in G troop, 30th Light Dragoons, of some six years' service. Since the day old Sergeant Denny Lee 'listed him in Charles Street, just outside the Cheshire Cheese, close by where the Council door of the India Office now is, Mick had never been anything else than a private soldier, and never hoped or needed hope to be anything else if he served out his full twenty-four years, for he could neither read nor write, and his regimental defaulter sheet was much fuller of "marks" than the most lavish barrack-room pudding is of raisins. Nevertheless the Queen had a very good bargain in honest Mick, although that was scarcely the opinion of the adjutant, who was a "jumped-up" youngster, and had not been in the Crimea with the regiment. |
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... , and soon you scarcely would have known him for a veteran soldier . There remained one link only between him and my father , the interchange of the snuff - mull . But there were no more of the genial little chats 68 the old serGEANT.
... , and soon you scarcely would have known him for a veteran soldier . There remained one link only between him and my father , the interchange of the snuff - mull . But there were no more of the genial little chats 68 the old serGEANT.
Page 94
... remained ex- ceptionally intimate . And The universal wonder was why Jellypod should have come into cavalry . He was a fine - looking florid man of some seven - and - twenty , with a full round face , encircled by long chestnut whiskers ...
... remained ex- ceptionally intimate . And The universal wonder was why Jellypod should have come into cavalry . He was a fine - looking florid man of some seven - and - twenty , with a full round face , encircled by long chestnut whiskers ...
Page 108
... remained that of captain , and as his original Indian regiment had gone home and he had exchanged into its successor , so as to keep on in his staff billet , he was regimentally a very junior captain . But this gave him no disquietude ...
... remained that of captain , and as his original Indian regiment had gone home and he had exchanged into its successor , so as to keep on in his staff billet , he was regimentally a very junior captain . But this gave him no disquietude ...
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... remained alone , kneeling on his coffin- lid there , face to face with imminent death in the midst of the strained and painful silence . " Marching at the head of the procession , the members of the firing party had no opportunity of ...
... remained alone , kneeling on his coffin- lid there , face to face with imminent death in the midst of the strained and painful silence . " Marching at the head of the procession , the members of the firing party had no opportunity of ...
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... remained standing over the prostrate figure , and was deliberately reloading the pistol . " What the devil is the man doing ? ' cried the general testily . “ ' Probably , sir , ' answered the assistant adjutant- general , ' he has not ...
... remained standing over the prostrate figure , and was deliberately reloading the pistol . " What the devil is the man doing ? ' cried the general testily . “ ' Probably , sir , ' answered the assistant adjutant- general , ' he has not ...
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