First and only edition of this very elusive memoir, chatty and anecdotal, which paints an excellent picture of the social side of military life in the 1850s, including service with the 15th Hussars in India and the Crimea. From the library of General Sir Frederick Fitzwygram (1823-1904), a brother officer in the same regiment. Wale (1827-1892), son of General Sir Charles Wale, was commissioned as a cornet in the regiment in 1845, serving in India, transferring to the Scots Greys in 1851, and spending some time in the Crimea with them. He was ordained a deacon in 1861, becoming rector of Folksworth in Huntingdonshire in 1865, and organizing secretary for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts in Rochester from 1881 until his death in 1892. Frederick Wellington Fitzwygram, educated at Eton and Sandhurst, joined the 6th Dragoons, the Inniskillings, and served in the Crimea. In 1860 he transferred to the 15th Hussars, Wale's regiment, eventually becoming Inspector G