Dunsterville & Dunsterforce
Dunsterville, L C Dunsterforce and its campaign across the Caucasus
Most readers know that the principal adolescent who appeared in Rudyard Kipling's tale, 'Stalky and Co', was based on an actual person, Lionel Dunsterville, who was a school friend of the author. Stalky, the ring-leader of a roguish trio, was destined for a military career in India and so it was for Dunsterville. He served on the North-western Frontier and during the Boxer Rebellion in China....