Andrew J Kilsby is a consulting historian with a particular interest in military, social and business history to 1920. He has self‑published two books about colonial contingents to Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee – Lions of the day (2008) and The Bisley boys (2008) – and co‑authored Fallen Leaves, a commemoration of World War One soldiers from a Melbourne borough who did not return. His biographical review of Francis Rawdon Chesney, RE, chief military engineer of Tasmania from 1862 to 1867 was published in the December 2010 issue of Soldiers of the Queen, the journal of the Victorian Military Society in the UK. Andrew is completing his PhD at ADFA@UNSW and is writing a commissioned history of the National Rifle Association, Australia’s oldest national sporting organization.