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Issue Details: First known date: 1857... 1857 Reginald Mortimer; or, 'Truth More Strange Than Fiction' : A Tale of a Soldier's Life and Adventure
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E. Morris Miller's Australian Literature from its Beginnings to 1935 (1940): 600 comments: 'Account of the life of a young Irish University graduate and officer who served in Spain during the Carlist rebellion in 1836 and passed several years with his regiment in England, Malta and the West Indies. He was killed in action in the Crimea. The book includes two romantic love stories and souvenirs de voyage through southern Europe.'

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    • Melbourne, Victoria,: W. Fairfax and Co. , 1857 .
      Extent: 192p.
      Written as: Stoney, H. Butler
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      • Author's Preface: It was in the last charge of the British troops on that eventful day on the heights of Alma, that Captain Mortimer, of the --, whilst gallantly leading on his company, received his death wound, and was carried from the field to his tent within the lines; a few hours after which he breathed his last. ...

        Whether my readers will feel the same interest in perusing these pages now laid before them with but slight alteration, I cannot tell: but as I can answer for the truth of the story, having as I said before, been an eye-witness to, and a participator in, a great portion of it, I boldly and trustfully lay it before the public.

        There is a certain degree of interest ever attached to truth, that I confidently hope such may be the fate of Reginald Mortimer, and the necessary change from autobiography, for description's sake, will, I trust, also make it more readable as a monthly publication. H. B. S. Somerset House Melbourne, 12th August, 1857.

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