Adventures of a Guardsman

A convict memoir by Charles Cozens, was published in 1848. One of the few accounts of transportation life by a gentleman convict, it records the early life and adventures of Cozens, his enlistment in the Royal Horse Guards, his court-martial for threatening a superior officer, and his years (1840-46) in NSW where he worked as a constable, clerk and census collector in the Monaro district, Yass, Sydney and elsewhere. Adventures of a Guardsman is critical of the convict system but expresses admiration for the governor of the colony, Sir George Gipps.

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