A Son of the Widow

William Richard Acock served as a gunner in the British Royal Artillery during the 1890s in India and present-day Pakistan. In this rare volume, amassed from his original handwritten and typed accounts more than a century later, he shares his timeless and compelling firsthand experiences. From his hometown of Stratford-on-Avon in England, the young twenty-year old came of age in the British Raj while guarding the Khyber Pass, jungle-hunting for tigers, and falling in love with a beautiful s...