Daniel Henry MacKinnon

Daniel Henry MacKinnon was a British Army officer and author born in 1813 and died in 1884. He is best known for writing Military Service and Adventures in the Far East, a two-volume account first published in 1847 and later issued under his name, describing his service in India and the campaigns in Afghanistan and against the Sikhs.

Alongside his military memoir, MacKinnon also wrote biographical and historical works. The surviving references to his books present him as a career soldier who turned practical experience into clear, readable narrative, making his work useful both as personal testimony and as a record of imperial warfare in the 19th century.

Reliable biographical detail beyond his army career and published books is limited in the sources I could confirm here, so it is safest to remember him chiefly as a soldier-author whose writing preserves a participant's view of British campaigns in Asia.