IN AT THE SHARPE END
Local author Rosslyn MacPhail’s biography of her great great grandfather Captain John Orr (1789–1879) was published in October and will be launched later this month in Edinburgh Castle.
Based on a previously unseen campaign diary and letters, From Fighting Napoleon to the Scottish Military Academy recounts Orr’s active army career in the Peninsular campaign from 1811 to 1814 (Salamanca, Burgos and the Pyrenees) and then at Quatre Bras and Waterloo (1815), where he was wounded in the knee and later pensioned off.