Contents

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1        The Royal Hibernian Military School

Chapter 2        The Shores of a New Land

Chapter 3        In a Guardsman’s Boots

Chapter 4        Royal Stations

Chapter 5        Beside the Tideless Sea

Chapter 6        The Land of Pharaohs and Kings

Chapter 7        White Sand and Red Blood

Chapter 8        Into the Blue

Chapter 9        My Broken Body

Chapter 10      The Egyptian Army

Chapter 11      The Tiger of Faluja

Chapter 12      In Old Cairene Society

Chapter 13      The Three Cracks

Chapter 14      The Flight of the British

Chapter 15      My Final Post in Egypt

Chapter 16      A New Beginning

Afterword