Redcoat's Rifle

Book 2 in the Soldier of the Queen Series, by Griff Hosker.
The British Army at the end of the nineteenth century was not a fair place. Despite the reforms, a bad officer could still ruin men’s lives and Jack Roberts discovers that despite being a hero of Rorke’s Drift, that means nothing when a superior has influence. He becomes a soldier serving in the Egyptian campaign where he learns not only new skills but how to deal with the new responsibility fatherhood brings.
Throughout it all one t...