Chapter X (3)

The ‘Medical and Surgical History’ states that during the month of November 2 officers and 29 men of the 1st Battalion were killed in action or in the trenches; and 3 officers and 131 men were wounded, of whom 13 died.

And that in the 2nd Battalion, 13 men were killed, and 1 officer and 33 men were wounded, of whom three suffered amputation.

[251] Lieutenant-Colonel C. H. S. Churchill.

[252] Lieutenant-Colonel E. W. Blackett, half-pay.

[253] ‘Letters from Head-quarters by a Staff Officer,’ 191, 3rd edition.

[254] During this month eight men of this Battalion were wounded in the trenches, and one man, wounded in December, died of his wounds.

[255] Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Augustus H. A. Anson, V.C., retired.

[256] In the official notification of the grant of the Victoria Cross, MacGregor is said to have performed this act of valour ‘in the month of July;’ but I have been repeatedly assured by Bradshaw that he, Humpston and MacGregor were together, and won their crosses on this occasion.

[257] Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. James Stuart, died April 11, 1870.

[258] Captain Saunders (retired) died May 28, 1863.

[259] Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzroy Fremantle, Coldstream Guards.

[260] One officer and 30 men of the 2nd Battalion were killed in action; and 4 officers and 125 men wounded during the month of June. Of these 12 cases proved fatal.

[261] Three privates of the 2nd Battalion are returned in the ‘Gazette’ as killed and 13 wounded on July 3.

[262] For his conduct on this occasion Fyers recommended Sergeant Kemp for the Victoria Cross, but he did not receive it.

[263] Three men of the 2nd Battalion were killed, and 43 wounded during the month of July, of these 6 terminated fatally. And 4 men, wounded in June, died in this month. Fourteen men of the 1st Battalion were wounded in the trenches in August, 2 of whom died. And 2 men of the 2nd Battalion were killed, and more than 80 wounded, 6 of whom died.

[264] Major Walter Francis Balfour, retired March 10, 1857.

[265] Nineteen men of the 1st Battalion were wounded in action in September, of whom 2 died. One of these (William Hardinge) was so much injured about the head and face by the bursting of a shell (on September 5) that he died of lock-jaw on the 11th. And 25 men of the 2nd Battalion were killed, and 7 officers and 181 men were wounded in action, of whom 15 died of their wounds.

[266] ‘Illustrated London News,’ xxvii. p. 394. A ‘Memoir of Captain M. M. Hammond’ was published in 1858.

[267] Major-General Percy Hill, C.B.