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  OLDHAM, PHOTO. COLCHESTER.AUTOTYPE
T. GOWING,
Late Sergeant-Major, Royal Fusiliers.
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.

ALSO
SKETCHES OF THE LIVES AND DEATHS OF
SIR H. HAVELOCK, K.C.B., AND CAPTAIN HEDLEY VICARS.

TOGETHER WITH
SOME THINGS NOT GENERALLY KNOWN.

BY ONE OF THE ROYAL FUSILIERS.

NOTTINGHAM:
PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY THOS. FORMAN AND SONS
1896.

All Rights Reserved.
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Price:—Gilt Edges, 6s. 6d.

Copies may be had on application to the Author—T. Gowing,
200, Chippinghouse Road, Sheffield; or from
The Publishers, Nottingham.
[v]
 PREFACE.
Having been much encouraged by the rapid sale of 22,500 copies of the first editions of my book, and being urged by a number of friends to go more deeply into the subject, I have revised and considerably enlarged it, and hope that the following pages will prove of interest, not only to the rising generation, but to all thinking people. I have confined myself strictly to a narrative of facts, whether the incidents related came und                        
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