| Description | Diaries of Harry Denison, son of Robert Denison, Waplington, b.1830, covering the period 1848-1855, during which time he was a commissioned officer in the 90th Light Infantry Regiment and served in England, Ireland, the West Indies and, during the Crimean War, in Malta and the Crimea
The diaries do not cover his later service in India where he died of wounds received at the relief of Lucknow, see letters as described in DDSA/1077
Places mentioned: Barbados, Antigua, Barbuda, Grenada, Demerara, Essequibo, Massaruni, St Thomas, London, Upton, Waplington, Saltmarshe, York, Hythe, Canterbury, High Elm, Mersham, Birmingham, Dublin, Mullingar, Troopship Resolute, Malta, HMS Medway, Dardanelles, Scutari, Bosphorus, Balaclava, Crimea
Also two poems 'Crimea' and 'Florence Nightingale' copied out at end of book |