Salomons Alderman (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Fine. Original wraps 21 x 32cm. (1) + 20pp of closely packed small font text. Fine with some light creasing and light tanning. Very rare - traced to only 2 institutions, both on Copac (NLS, York University). Submitted by Thomas George Baring, War Office, 5 February 1861, to the House of Commons (ordered to be printed by them on 6 Feb 1861), in response to a request made by them on 28 August 1860. It gives vivid insights into life, discipline and morale in the British army stationed on Gibraltar at that time, with detailed tables (Date, Corps, No., Crimes, Punishment Awarded (Solitary Confinement (Days) / Hard Labour (Days) / Corporal (Lashes)), and Remarks (describing any extra punishments, remission etc)). The perpetrators are not named, though sometimes their victims are. Numerous instances are described, relating to drunkenness, theft, falling asleep on sentry duty, assault, insubordination, etc, and occasional indecent assault including on a minor, and another soldier, sometimes quoting verbatim exchanges. One of the Military Prison Governors, Captain Frederick Brome (1814-90), subsequently sought to more productively employ several inmates and their warders in the archaeological excavation of the Genista Caves during 1863-68, until the War Office ordered him to stop.…