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A British Royal Artillery officer who turned military experience into practical writing, he is best known for The Artillerist’s Manual and British Soldier’s Compendium. His surviving public record is slim, which gives his work an intriguing, archival feel.
by F. A. Griffiths
Frederick Augustus Griffiths is identified by Project Gutenberg as F. A. Griffiths (Frederick Augustus), the author of The Artillerist’s Manual and British Soldier’s Compendium. The available public sources point to him as a British Army figure associated with artillery rather than a literary career in the modern sense.
What makes him interesting today is the kind of book he left behind: not a novel, but a practical manual shaped by military knowledge and service. That gives his writing a direct, useful quality and offers modern listeners a small window into nineteenth-century British military life.
Reliable biographical detail beyond that appears to be limited in the sources I could confirm here, so it is best to treat him as a relatively obscure historical author whose reputation rests mainly on this surviving work.