Men of the Time, eleventh edition/Brackenbury, Charles Booth
BRACKENBURY, Charles Booth, born at Bayswater, Nov. 7, 1831, and educated at the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, was appointed Second Lieutenant Royal Artillery, 19th Dec., 1850; First Lieutenant 27th Sept. 1852; Second Captain 17th Nov. 1857; First Captain 9th Feb. 1855. He has been an Assistant Instructor in Artillery at the Royal Military Academy, and Assistant Director of Artillery Studies, and is now in the Depot Brigade, R.A., at Sheerness. Captain Brackenbury was present at the siege of Sebastopol, and went through the Bohemian campaign of 1866, and the campaign of Le Mans with the army of Prince Frederick Charles in 1871. He is the author of "European Armaments in 1867;" "The Constitutional Forces of Great Britain;" "Foreign Armies and Home Reserves," 1871, being a collection of letters to the Times on the campaigns of 1866 and 1870–71; "The Winter Campaign of Prince Frederick Charles in 1870–71;" and "Reforms in the French Army," translated in the Intelligence Department, Horse Guards, War Office, 1874.