[[File:Verner compass model VIII.jpg|thumb|left|Verner's Pattern no VIII by a Swiss Clockmaker, Ed Koehn, dated 1916]]
Verner became the official historian of the [[Rifle BrigideBrigade]] and he edited the letters home of aone majorof its majors to createproduce ''A British Rifle Man: The Journals and Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade, during the Peninsular War & Campaign of Waterloo''.<ref>[https://archive.org/details/abritishriflema00simmgoog A British Rifle Man: The Journals and Correspondence of Major George Simmons, Rifle Brigade, during the Peninsular War & Campaign of Waterloo], Major George Simmons, Book Depository, accessed January 2013</ref>
He also wrote ''The Military Life of H. R. H. George: Duke of Cambridge'' based on [[Prince George, Duke of Cambridge]].
