"The Journal of Trooper Samuel Gallagher 5th Dragoon..." Topic

… Guards In Spain, Portugal & France 1810-15.

"This journal of a heavy cavalryman is a rare thing in itself as we are not blessed with many memoirs from this arm of the cavalry; unlike the light cavalry who seem to have written profusely. Indeed, regarding the 5th Dragoon Guards itself, this is the only published memoir, hence its great importance. I have therefore been keen to produce it for some time.

I have been in possession of a typed copy of the journal (the present whereabouts of the original are not known) which is held by the National Army Museum, Chelsea, under the Reference 1968/07/213. However, it is unsigned and is simply recorded as �The Memoirs of An Unknown Dragoon�. I have therefore delayed publishing it until I finally had the opportunity to visit Kew and to do some detective work. I am very glad to say that after two hours of searching the Regimental Musters I was able to identify only one candidate who had served in all of the three regiments mentioned and whose dates matched. I am very glad to confirm that when I then called up Trooper Samuel Gallagher�s service records, it matched exactly with everything claimed within the memoir (with a few minor discrepancies in dates) and this has allowed me to confirm with great certainty that it is both written by him and is the genuine account of a heavy cavalryman…"
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