author
Edwin George Rundle
b. 1838
A vivid first-person military memoir brings a 19th-century soldier's world to life, from his upbringing in Cornwall to service in the British Army and the Red River Expedition in Canada. The story has the immediacy of lived experience and the detail of someone who remembered it all carefully.
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A Soldier's Life: Being the Personal Reminiscences of Edwin G. Rundle
by Edwin George Rundle
About the author
Born on September 17, 1838, in Penryn, Cornwall, Edwin George Rundle later wrote A Soldier's Life, a memoir published in Toronto in 1909. In it, he says he was educated in local schools and apprenticed as a carpenter and joiner before entering military life.
Rundle is best known for this firsthand account of his years as a soldier. The book presents him as a former Sergeant-Major in Her Majesty's 17th Leicestershire Regiment of Foot, later an instructor and lecturer at the military school in Toronto from 1866 to 1868, and a member of the Red River Expedition.
Because so much of what is easily confirmed about him comes from his own memoir and its publication records, many personal details outside that story remain unclear. Still, A Soldier's Life stands as a useful and engaging piece of Canadian and British military reminiscence, valued for its direct voice and eyewitness perspective.