War correspondent and novelist. Best known for adventure stories such as The Young Bugler (1880), Under Drake's Flag (1883), With Clive in India (1884), When London Burned, A Story of Restoration Times and the Great Fire (1895), Moore at Corunna (1898), At Aboukir and Acre, A Story of Napoleon's Invasion of Egypt (1899), With Buller in Natal (1901), With Roberts to Pretoria (1902), and With Kitchener in the Soudan (1903).