Grattan’s military service, which had begun in 1808, ended in 1817, in consequence of the enormous reductions in the effective of the army which were carried out after the evacuation of France began. His name last appears among combatant officers in the army list for March 1817, the month in which the 88th was reduced from two battalions to one, and many of its officers placed upon half pay. But he lived for thirty years longer, frequently descending into print in the _United Service Journal_, to controvert those who seemed to him to undervalue the services of the 88th or the old 3rd Division. In 1836 we find him residing at New Abbey, Kilcullen, and issuing a _Vindication of the Connaught Rangers_, which seemed so convincing to the officers of his old regiment, that they presented him with a present of plate to the value of 200 guineas “as a mark of their personal esteem and regard, and also in token of their warm admiration of his triumphant vindication of his gallant regiment from the attacks of the biographer [Robinson] of the late Sir Thomas Picton.” In 1847 he published the two volumes from which the present reprint is taken. In the following year he received his long-deserved Peninsular Medal. His last appearance in print was the publication of the two supplementary volumes of _Anecdotes and Reminiscences_, mentioned above, in the spring of 1853. C. OMAN. OXFORD, _November 1902_. THE OFFICERS OF THE 88TH 1809–14 Grattan’s Memoirs cannot be fully understood without a list of the comrades whom he is perpetually mentioning in the narrative. I therefore append the names of the officers of the 88th from the Army List of 1809–10. I have added to each of those who were killed or wounded during the war a note specifying the casualty. No less than 49 of the 103 names bear this addition! _Colonel_ William Carr Beresford, Major-General, wounded at Salamanca, 22.7.12. _Lieutenant-Colonels_ Alexander Wallace. John Taylor. _Majors_ Richard Vandeleur, died at Campo Mayor, 5.11.09. Daniel Colquhun. John Silver, killed at Busaco, 27.9.10. R. Barclay M‘Pherson. _Captains_ Robert B. M‘Gregor. Campbell Callendar. John Dunne. William C. Seton. Barnaby Murphy, wounded at Badajoz, killed at Salamanca, 22.7.12. Charles John Peshall, wounded at Badajoz, 6.4.12. James P. Oates, wounded at Badajoz, 6.4.12. William Adair M‘Dougall. William Hogan, killed at Salamanca, 22.7.12. Charles Tryon. John Groffer. Christopher Irwine, killed at Fuentes d'Oñoro, 5.5.11.