Description 9″ x 5 1/2″, 97 pages and a further 30 pages of appendix, epilogue, and bibliography. first published in Calcutta in 1885, a 2nd edition was published 1900, this edition with introduction and epilogue by Maj Gen B.P. Hughes 1979, the story of N.W. Bancroft who joined Bengal Horse Artillery at the age of 9 as a boy recruit in 1833, also included in this edition within the appendix are 8 pages of letters from Queen Victoria’s private sec which shows her Majesty’s interest in her old soldier
