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Louis Eugène Du Moulin

A soldier-writer with a front-line view of the Second Boer War, he left behind a vivid account of marching, fighting, and military life in South Africa. His book was completed and published after his death, giving it the feel of both memoir and memorial.

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Two Years on Trek: Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa

Two Years on Trek: Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa

by Louis Eugène Du Moulin

About the author

Louis Eugène Du Moulin was a lieutenant colonel in the Royal Sussex Regiment and the author of Two Years on Trek: Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa. Records from The National Archives list him as Louis Eugene Du Moulin (1859–1902), and Project Gutenberg identifies Two Years on Trek as his known book.

A prefatory note to the 1907 edition says he was of French descent, New Zealand-born, educated at Sandhurst, and entered the army in 1879. It also describes a career spent largely with the Royal Sussex Regiment, including service in India and on the North-West Frontier before the South African War.

That same note explains that the book was written mostly by Du Moulin but finished and published by his comrades after he was killed at Abraham's Kraal on January 28, 1902. The result is a firsthand military narrative shaped by experience in the field, and it remains a valuable personal record of the Royal Sussex Regiment during the Boer War.