A Soldier's Experience; or, A Voice from the Ranks / Showing the Cost of War in Blood and Treasure. A Personal Narrative of the Crimean Campaign, from the Standpoint of the Ranks; the Indian Mutiny, and Some of its Atrocities; the Afghan Campaigns of 1863

by T. Gowing

15th (King’s) Hussars.—Emsdorf, Villiers-en-Couche, Egmont-op-Zee, Sahagun, Vittoria, Peninsula, Waterloo, Afghanistan, 1878-80.

16th (Queen’s) Lancers.—Talavera, Fuentes de Oñoro, Salamanca, Vittoria, Nive, Peninsula, Waterloo, Bhurtpore, Afghanistan, Ghuznee, Maharajpore, Aliwal, Sobraon.

17th (Duke of. Cambridge’s Own) Lancers.—Alma, Balaklava, Inkermann, Sevastopol, Central India, South Africa, 1879.

18th Hussars.—Peninsula, Waterloo.

19th Hussars.—Assaye, Niagara, Egypt, 1882-4, Tel-el-Kebir, Nile, 1884-5, Abou Klea.

20th Hussars.—Peninsula, Suakin, 1885.

21st Hussars.—Nil.

The Royal Regiment of Artillery.—This noble arm of the service has served in all quarters of the globe, and in every battle, from Crecy down to the present time.

In tracing out the honours of our Infantry, to assist the reader we give their old titles and their new-fangled territorial distinctions.

Grenadier Guards.—Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde, Malplaquet, Dettingen, Lincelles, Corunna, Barrosa, Peninsula, Waterloo, Alma, Inkermann, Sevastopol, Egypt, 1882, Tel-el-Kebir, Suakin, 1885.