To some readers some of the facts and anecdotes I have here recorded may appear trifling and unworthy of mention. But it must be borne in mind that I write for Riflemen, at the desire of Riflemen, and to preserve the memory of the deeds of Riflemen. By them I am sure nothing will be considered trivial, nothing out of place in a history of the Regiment, which records the valour, the acts, the sufferings or even preserves an anecdote of any (of whatever rank) of the members of that brotherhood.
W. H. C.
Bramshill: December 1876.
FOOTNOTES:
[1] ‘Sketch of the Field Services of the Rifle Brigade from its Formation to the Battle of Waterloo.’ London, 1838, pp. 32.
[2] ‘Rough Sketches in the Life of an Old Soldier.’ London, 1831.
[3] ‘Twenty-five Years in the Rifle Brigade.’ Edinburgh, 1833.
[4] The order for keeping regimental records is dated September 1822. The 3rd Battalion was disbanded in 1818.
[5] ‘Adventures in the Rifle Brigade’ and ‘Random Shots from a Rifleman.’
[6] ‘Adventures of a Soldier.’ London, 1852.