The British Soldier: An Anecdotal History of the British Army (London: Wm. S. Orr, 1857), PP. 272–6.

Joachim Hayward Stocqueler was born in London in 1801 to a father of Italian-Portuguese heritage and an English mother. After serving in the East India Company army, he became a journalist in Bombay and then Calcutta. Stocqueler was frequently in debt, and was peripatetic as a result. In 1843, he returned to England, continuing his career in journalism and his struggles with debt. His journalistic interests centred on the military, India and the theatre. He died in 1886.