NAPOLEONIC ARCHIVE 17: MEMOIRS OF LT-GEN SIR ROWLAND HILL'S 2ND DIVISION.
Code: NA17
Price: £26.5
Category(s): New Books, Our Publications, Napoleonic,
277pp., several illus., 5 maps, 7 tables. 2024. For this volume, Gareth has collected a number of both short and some longer memoirs and collections of letters from soldiers in regiments connected to the Second Division in the Peninsular War. There are 9 in all. Of particular interest are Captain Joseph Barrallier’s (45th /71st) account of his service in South America, Walcheren and the Peninsula; Private Matthew Orr’s (92nd) letters, mostly from home service; Lieutenant Charles Stewart’s (28th) diary of the 1793 and Captain James Crummer’s (28th) letters spanning his service from 1807 to 1815, form a very important record of the services of the regiment, particularly at Albuera.