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Louis Eugène Du Moulin
Best known for a vivid firsthand account of the Second Boer War, this soldier-author wrote with the detail of someone who had lived every mile of the campaign. His surviving public record is brief, but his book still stands out as a direct, boots-on-the-ground chronicle of regimental life.
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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 British Army officer who served with the Royal Sussex Regiment and reached the rank of lieutenant-colonel. Public archive records list him as Louis Eugene du Moulin, with life dates of 1859 to 1902.
He is best known as the author of Two Years on Trek: Being Some Account of the Royal Sussex Regiment in South Africa, a memoir-like history of the regiment's experience in the Second Boer War. The book is commonly presented in library and public-domain records as the work of “the late Lt.-Colonel du Moulin,” which fits the archive record showing that he died in 1902.
Because easily available biographical information on him is limited, a full personal portrait is hard to reconstruct with confidence. What can be said securely is that he left behind a military narrative valued for its firsthand perspective on campaigning, soldiers' routines, and the realities of war in South Africa.