The Sphere praised the book, describing it as 'highly humorous and showing comic sketching genius'.

[1][2] Dixon attended Rugby School and Sandhurst before embarking on a military career when he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the 16th Lancers on 8 October 1890.

He was appointed adjutant to his regiment on 22 March 1900, and served as such for the rest of the war, during which he was promoted a brevet major on 29 November 1900.

[4] Dixon resigned from the army in August 1902 following the end of the war,[5] and returned home on the SS Scot in September 1902.

[6] He re-enlisted after the outbreak of the First World War, and was killed at the First Battle of Ypres shortly after receiving the substantive promotion to Major.