author
George Leonard Cheesman
d. 1915
A gifted young Oxford historian whose promising career was cut short in the First World War, he is best remembered for a classic study of Rome’s auxiliary forces. His story blends serious scholarship with a life of service that ended at Gallipoli.
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The Auxilia of the Roman Imperial Army
by George Leonard Cheesman
About the author
George Leonard Cheesman was a British historian of the ancient world, born in 1884. He was educated at Winchester College, where he became a scholar and later a prefect, and he went on to New College, Oxford, where he was a Fellow.
His best-known work is The Auxilia of the Roman Imperial Army, published in 1914. The book established his reputation as a careful scholar of Roman military history and has remained the work most closely associated with his name.
Cheesman also served as a lieutenant in the Hampshire Regiment during the First World War. He died on August 10, 1915, at age 30 in the Gallipoli campaign, leaving behind a body of work that feels all the more striking because it was created in such a short life.