About the Author

Ray Cusick served in the Rifle Brigade and later in the King's Royal Rifle Corps with active service spent in the Middle East, principally in Palestine. After the Army, Ray taught art and history. An interest in writing came about whilst writing short plays for the BBC's training department, the writing increased over the years, in particular in the form form of articles for various magazines including The Age of Napoleon, First Empire, Journal of the Waterloo Association and the journal of The King's Royal Rifle Corps. Since moving near Horsham, he began research on its military past, Horsham barracks and the Experimental Corps of Riflemen who first mustered there in 1800. The outcome of such output was that Ray was invited to become a Fellow of the International Napoleonic Society.