Evidence: | 'Don't worry about me; at last I am a serious soldier. I have a pile of books on ordnance, and gunnery, and ammunition, and explosives etc., etc., littering my table, to say nothing of Napier's "Peninsular War", and a "Life of Napolean"![sic] So when my major made a surprise descent yesterday afternoon from Curepipe, he found me immersed in an essay on Rifling, and was rather pleased!' |
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Century: | 1900-1945 | ||||||||||
Date: | 22 Feb 1905 | ||||||||||
Country: | Mauritius | ||||||||||
Time: | afternoon | ||||||||||
Place: | city: Port Louis specific address: Fort George |
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Type of Experience (Reader): |
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Type of Experience (Listener): |
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Reader: | Donald William Alers Hankey |
Age | Adult (18-100+) |
Gender | Male |
Date of Birth | Dec 1884 |
Socio-economic group: | Professional / academic / merchant / farmer |
Occupation: | Army Subaltern |
Religion: | Church of England |
Country of origin: | England |
Country of experience: | Mauritius |
Listeners present if any: (e.g. family, servants,
friends, workmates) |
n/a |
Additional comments: | n/a |
Author: | [unknown] |
Title: | [essay on rifling] |
Genre: | Essays / Criticism, Technology |
Form of Text: | Print: Book |
Publication details: | n/a |
Provenance: | owned |
Record ID: | 10319 | |
Source - | ||
Author: | Donald William Alers Hankey | |
Editor: | Edward Miller | |
Title: | Letters of Donald Hankey "A Student in Arms" | |
Place of Publication: | London | |
Date of Publication: | 1920 | |
Vol: | n/a | |
Page: | 26-27 | |
Additional comments: | Letter dated 23 February 1905. |
Citation: | Donald William Alers Hankey, Edward Miller (ed.), Letters of Donald Hankey "A Student in Arms" (London, 1920), p. 26-27, http://can-red-lec.library.dal.ca/Arts/reading/recorddetails2.php?id=10319, accessed: 23 April 2024 |
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