Gazetted to the Buffs as a young army doctor in 1841, Gordon sailed for India and spent four decades on the move: the Gwalior campaign and Maharajpore, the Guinea coast and Barbados, Ireland and the Punjab, the outbreak of the Sepoy Mutiny, the 1860 expedition to China and, finally, the Siege of Paris in 1870–71.
A candid Victorian service memoir seen through a medical officer’s eyes, rich in shipboard and garrison detail. Download the free EPUB.