Soldiers and Others I Have Known

A memoir of forty-three years service in the British Army by Major-General Sir John Adye covering his early career in India and Afghanistan in 1879. Home service then to Egypt in 1882. With Wolseley at Tel-el-Kebir, then as aide-de-camp to his father who had been appointed Governor of Gibraltar. On campaign in Sudan in 1884-1885 and at Staff College 1885-1886. He was at Chatham until 1893 working as a military correspondent for a newspaper in addition to his garrison duties. Then to Gibraltar again from 1893 to 1896 and to Malta, and on to South Africa where he was on campaign from 1899 until 1902. After the South African War he served in Gibraltar, Mauritius and Malta until 1907, then to duty in the War Office until 1911. In 1912, Adye was appointed Major-General in charge of Administration, Eastern Command, head-quartered in Whitehall where he spent the first half of the Great War. In 1915 he departed England for Salonika, travelling part of the way from France with Lord Kitchener. Illness saw him shipped to Egypt, where he obtained a new position, later serving in Sinai and Palestine as well. Short spells dealing with POWs and work with the Armistice Commission culminated in his retirement in 1919...