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THE MUTINY. Jan., 1908.J THE MEDICAL SERVICES IN in on ? Surgeon R. H. Bartrum* the advance Lucknow on 26th September; one died of iriqinal Articles. wounds, Asst.-Surgeon E. Darby, in Lucknow / Residency, on 27th October. The twenty-eight medical officers killed were THE MEDICAL SERVICES IN THE the following. The dates in brackets after their MUTINY. names are the dates of entering the service :? Was it storm? Our fathers faced it and a wilder never Superintending Surgeon James Graham blew ; (9th January 1820), killed by mutineers at Earth that waited for the wreckage watched the galley Sialkot, 9th July. struggle through. Acting Superintending Surgeon Christopher Kipling. Garbett (23rd May 1828), died in Wheler's By D. G. CRAWFORD, m.b., entrenchment, Cawnpore, June. LIEUT.-COLONEL, I.M.S., Surgeon Thomas Smith, Invalid establish- ment (22nd October 1831), killed mutineers Civil Surgeon, Hughli. by at Meerut, 10th May. and since the Fifty years have come gone Surgeon Henry Hawkins Bowling (1st March Sepoy Mutiny in 1857 shook the British power 1838), killed by mutineers at Shahjahanpur, in India to its foundations. To most of us, 31st Majr. especially to the elders, the Mutiny has always Surgeon Kinloch Winlaw Kirk (2nd October been a subject of much interest. It has 1838), killed by mutineers at Gwalior, 13th certainly been so to me. Several of my rela- June. tions served in it, one being killed in action ; and Surgeon Nathaniel Collyer (1st November I was born in Bengal a few weeks after the first 1838), killed at Cawnpore, 27th June. outburst. Twenty-five years later, in 1882, Surgeon William Robert Boyes (1st August was to soon after my return to India, I posted 1841), killed at Cawnpore, 27th June. Delhi, and spent the greater part of my military Surgeon Arthur Wellesley Robert Newenham service in that pleasant but unhealthy station. (11th May 1842), killed at Cawnpore, 27th Even in Delhi, in 1882, the Mutiny seemed but June. a dim and distant memory. It does not appear Surgeon Thomas Godfrey Heathcote (12th to me now long to look back upon 1882. Yet August 1842), killed at Cawnpore, loth July. the interval between the beginning of the Surgeon Samuel Maltby (31st October 1843), Mutiny and mj- joining at Delhi was shorter killed at Cawnpore, 15th July. than the period from that day to this. There Asst.-Surgeon John Macdowall Hay (29th May were then serving in Delhi, a small station, 1843), killed by mutineers at Bareli, 31st May. at least four officers who had been through the Asst.-Surgeon John Colin Graham (16th Mutinj\ Now there is no Mutiny veteran on January 1844), killed by mutineers at Sialkot, the active list of a lower rank than Field-marshal. 9th July. There was also then, living in Delhi, in Asst.-Surgeon Hartwell Samuel Garner (11th Daryaganj, an old lady, who lived there when February 1845), killed by mutineers at Sigauli, the Mutiny broke out, and who had formed one 23rd July. of the crowd of fugitives to the Flagstaff tower, Asst.-Surgeon Robert Dallas Dove Allan on the 11th May 1857. (20th March 1845), killed at Cawnpore, 27th As is well known, the Mutiny was practically June. confined to the Bengal army, including the Asst.-Surgeon Thomas Moore (20th Janu- mutineers on road from irregular corps in Rajputana and Central India. ary 1847), killed by We would naturally expect, therefore, that the Cuttack to Sambalpur, 17th November. medical officers who lost their lives in the struggle Asst.-Surgeon William Barker MacEgan (9th belonged for the most part to the Bengal service. March 1847), killed by mutineers at Jhansi, As a matter of fact, all the I. M. S. officers who 7th June. were killed were Bengal men. They numbered Asst.-Surgeon Robert Lyell (25th September twenty-eight, of whom no less than nine, 1847), killed by mutineers at Patna, 3rd July. one-third of the whole, perished at Cawnpore. Asst.-Surgeon Horatio Philip Harris (7th It is not known with certainty how all of those April 1848), killed at Cawnpore, 12th June. nine died. For instance, acting Superintending Asst.-Surgeon George Hansbrow (4th Febru- Surgeon Christopher Garbett is stated, in an ary 1849), killed by mutineers at Bareli, 31st obituary notice in the Lancet of 14th November May. 1859, to have died of wounds; in the list of casualties in the India * East Register he is said Mrs. Bartrum was in the Lucknow Residency throughout to have died of fever in Wheler's the siege. Her husband, who was with the relieving force, entrenchment, was shot the head on 26th September 1857, the day before the final through surrender. Of the other 27, two sifter the first of that force had entered the Residency. She were title killed in action, T. H.Wood- subsequently published her experiences under the Asst.-Surgeon "A Widow's Reminiscences of the Siege of Lucknow." 12mo. ward before Delhi on 3lst August 1857, and Asst.- Ni?bet &Co., London, 1858. THE INDIAN MEDICAL GAZETTE. [Jan., 1908. Assfc.-Suvcreon John* Pierce (20th Bowling of Arrah. He died on board the on his December killed at 27th June. Ceylon 1851), Cawnpore, way home on 6th November I860.* (4th Asst.-Surgeon Anthony Dopping April No officer of the service, as far as killed mutineers, Delhi, 11th May. Bombay 1854), by I can ascertain, lost his life in the Of Robert Bartrum (11th Mutiny. Asst.-Surgeon Henry the Madras none were killed in in advance on service, though actually January 1855), action, four died the in the 26th killed, during Mutiny Lucknow, September. disturbed area. Marcus Hill Asst.-Surgeon George (24th William Sceales killed mutineers, Surgeon Henry (25th January 1855), by Sitapur, died at on 24th June 2nd June. January 1841), Dinapur 1858, of on and Daniel dysentery brought by fatigue Asst.-Surgeon Macauley (4th August while in Sir E. killed at 15th exposure serving Lugards 1855), Cawnpore, July. division. Edmund Asst.-Surgeon Darby (20th February Porter died of wounds in Lucknow, Asst.-Surgeon Ridlej' (13th January 1856), Residency, died at 17th 1857. 27th October. 1853), Jabalpur, September Dunman Feb- William Henry James (20th Asst.-Surgeon George (24th Asst.-Surgeon ruary died at Kirwer, 14th June killed mutineers, 1853), Camp February 1856), by Agar, 1858. Central India, 4th July. John Stafford Bush Thomas Hewlett Woodward Asst.-Surgeon (20th Asst.-Surgeon 15th killed in action, Delhi, February 1856), died at Kampti, August (20th February 1856), 1857. 31st August. The first accounts of the outbreak of the Thomas Cary (4th Asst.-Surgeon Henry which reached were December killed mutineers, Mutiny England partly 1856), by Mehidpur, fact and officers were 8th November. partly rumour. Many as who had in fact survived, and In addition to those killed, many reported killed, actually lived for In the Lancet of other officers succumbed to disease and to the long afterwards. 26th is a list medical officers hardships of the At least ten men September 1857 campaign. killed in the which includes the names of the service thus lost their lives. Mutiny, Bengal of re r June John Macdonald (27th Assistant-Surgeon Joseph Fay (29th Surgeon Bannatyne who was to live for half died of cholera in Lucknow 1850), fated nearly February 1830), a as 21st 8th 1857. century longer, and died so recently Residency, August and Richard Thomas Hunter May 1907; of Surgeon Henry Surgeon Christopher (24th who lived till 11th died at 28th March 1858. Oakley (8th January 1842), July 1834), Cawnpore, December 1900. William Rolfe (22nd Decem- Surgeon Amys Such in the received ber 1840), died in Calcutta, 4th August 1857. mistakes, early reports from were and indeed Surgeon James Anderson Nisbet (2nd April India, natural enough; inevitable. But in the East India 1844), died at Multan, 9th March 1858. Register for an official issued several Asst.-Surgeon Thomas Mawe (4th March 1858, publication, months after the the name of Assistant- 1844), died of and exposure at Manipur, event, fatigue William Ireland (4th Banda, after escape from the massacre at Jhansi, Surgeon Wotherspoon 28th August 1856), is shewn among the Bengal June 1857. " as 26th William Sutherland Stiven casualties, killed before Delhi, July Asst.-Surgeon 1857." His described in the (10th died at Allahabad, 27th injuries are thus September 1846), Lancet of ''A ball had February 1858. 7th November 1857. entered the the William Gardiner Morris eye, and passed below brain, Asst.-Surgeon out He had a (20th November 1848), died at Delhi, 13th coming near the ear second a charac- January 1858. wound, though of less serious ter, a ball entered the shoulder, which Asst.-Surgeon John Kirk (4th August 1855), having was found in his back." (The action at died at Attock, 21st July 1857. lodged Najafgarh, in which Dr. Ireland was wounded, William Chavasse Asst.-Surgeon Boyle (20th was on 25th 1857, not July). 2nd November fought August February 1856), died at Meerut, It is not to be wondered at that such wounds 1857. were supposed to be mortal. Dr. Ireland, Shaw Asst.-Surgeon William Joseph (4th however, recovered more or less, but had to August 1856), died of phthisis at Dilkusha, take sick leave in 1858, which was extended 27th Lucknow, November 1857. up to three years, at the end of which, being Asst.-Surgeon Frederick Christian Bushman still unfit to rejoin duty, he resigned the (4th December 1856), died at Barkata, 20th service, from 1st August 1861. He is still alive, dis- January 1858. and well known as a specialist in mental Others, who survived the actual eases, and as the author of several books on campaigns, " contracted disease which fatal before his own including The Blot on the proved subject," and the Gate." long.