A soldier’s scandal is revealed.
Newspaper cutting from 'Bath Local News', 21 Mar 2001.
Referring to Dorothy Anderson’s research into the life of Col Valentine Baker, 1827-1887.
Includes references to Sir Evelyn Wood, Miss Rebecca Kate Dickinson and Constantinople.
Col Baker served in 10th Hussars in South Africa and the Crimean War (1854-1856), before being disgraced and dishonourably discharged.
He also served in the Sudan as Inspector General of the Gendarmarie and also in Turkey and the Sudan, during 1885 (c).