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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| Title | Barracks, Bivouacs, and Battles Issue 130 of Macmillan's colonial library |
| Author | Archibald Forbes |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Company, 1891 |
| ISBN | 1511426039, 9781511426039 |
| Length | 328 pages |
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