Joseph Jocelyn Anderson

Born in 1790, he served in the British Army and is remembered as the author of Recollections of a Peninsular Veteran, a memoir drawn from his experience of the Napoleonic wars. Records from People Australia identify him as a soldier, and library and book records connect him with the 1790–1877 dates and the memoir published under Joseph Jocelyn Anderson.

He later became closely associated with colonial Australia. He served as commandant of Norfolk Island and went on to hold senior public roles in Victoria, where he was active in government and public life after his military career.

His writing stands out because it brings together personal memory and military history, giving modern readers an accessible account of service, discipline, and empire in the early nineteenth century.