Evelyn Wood went to sea as a boy in HMS Queen, fought ashore with the naval brigade before Sevastopol, and then transferred to the army, rising to the highest rank. His memoirs describe life aboard a man-of-war, the starving army in the Crimean winter, the Indian Mutiny and the African wars, down to the slow labour of getting ox-waggons across the Kei.
A frank and detailed soldier’s autobiography spanning half a century of Victorian campaigning. Download the free EPUB.