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.