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Title: A Soldier's Life
Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle

Author: Edwin G. Rundle

Commentator: Henry Woodside

Release Date: February 22, 2008 [EBook #24665]

Language: English

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REMINISCENCES OF SERGEANT-MAJOR RUNDLE

[Illustration: COLOR-SERGT. EDWIN G. RUNDLE. Age, 28 Years.]

A Soldier's Life

Being the Personal Reminiscences of

EDWIN G. RUNDLE

Late Sergeant-Major in Her Majesty's Leicestershire
Regiment of Foot, Instructor and Lecturer to the
Military School, Toronto, 1866-1868.
Member of the Red River Expedition.

With Introduction by
MAJOR HENRY J. WOODSIDE

Author's Edition

TORONTO
WILLIAM BRIGGS
1909

INTRODUCTION.

Of recent years we have had many books on military history, most of
them chiefly devoted to the wars which have marked the extension of
the British Empire.

In Sergeant-Major Rundle's narrative we have the interesting story of
how an honest English boy became attracted to the colors; how the
British army lives, moves and has its being in the British Isles and
in the Dominions beyond the seas; how that boy rose by honest effort
to the highest non-commissioned position in that army; and most
interesting of all, his experience on foreign service when his
regiment took part in the _Trent_ affair and Fenian raids, following
the close of the American civil war.

Later, Sergeant Rundle became instructor at the Toronto Military
School, where he trained some men now very prominent in Canadian
affairs. He also was a member of the Red River expedition, which
helped very much to open up and develop that western empire whose
golden tide of grain is now flowing into the wheat bins of the British
Empire.

Scattered through the story are many interesting reminiscences and
incidents. The actors in these dramas of a young natio