[4] Of the Kabul to Kandahar march Egerton wrote in 1930,[10] Afghanistan is a country of high altitudes with extremities of temperature.

Fahrenheit in a thin khaki coat at the start of the day's march, one knew well that before one reached camp the thermometer would have risen to 105deg.

We were on the whole well fed on plain soldiers' rations-meat and chupattees ; officers and men shared alike.He was promoted to lieutenant in June 1881.

In this capacity Edgerton, who in June 1898 was promoted to major,[13] was responsible for the training of regular, militia and volunteer soldiers in Scotland.

[16] He was then general officer commanding (GOC) of the Lowland Division, a Territorial Force (TF) formation, in March 1914,[17] just a few months prior to the outbreak of the First World War.

A garden and the cultivation of flowers is what I look forward to.Egerton went on to be director of infantry at the War Office in April 1916[2] and then retired with the rank of major general in 1919.