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| Accession number | 912L : 2124/6 |
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THE COST OF A CAMPAIGN > We have been furnished from a private source with a statement of the losses sustained by that gallant regiment , the 9th Lancers , in India during the thirteen months they were under canvas . As the re are no published returns of this kind , it will be scanned with a melancholy interest , not only by the relatives and friends of the brave soldiers whose lives have been expended at the call of duty , but by the public generally , as showing the loss in so short a period of a single regiment when engaged in active warfare : - KILLED IN ACTION , At Delhi Colonel Yule . Farrier Crittendon , Sergeant Kelly . Corporal Rimell . White . 23 " ) 33 " } " 3 Sheppard . Leech . 23 Private Allisson . " > " " 23 23 11 23 27 At Delhi . Captain Hamilton . Sergeant Nugent . 33 Ronayne . " } Helston . 33 * Corporal Martin . " } " } " " Whinehead . Parker . Marsden . Saunders , Kilpack . Couch . Goat . #Private Rutland . * Peckham . * Weeden . * Matthews . * Wells . * Mitchell . * Purcell . * Harrison . 37 22 33 19 Lyndsay . " > " 3 " > Dally . Bishop . Gray . " } 93 12 33 " " " " Fareweather . Bowland . Hartley . B. Clarke . " 3 37 19 Arnold . Burns . Gardiner . Durtnell . * Lee . * Ladbrook , * Reed . A. Fitzgerald J. Fitzgerald . Chantler . Robinson . T. Harrison , Butler . Cullum . Donovan . Dicker . WOUNDED . E. Harrison . E. iaddington . Walter's . Dyson . Gange . Powell . Ellington . Fisher . Talkingdon . T. Hebbard . Martin . Rutland . Lee . Hancock Foster . Taylor . Barnes . Lloyd . Starkey . Vallis . Blackhall , Timming Newbury . Shea . Winter . At Agra . Captain French , Sergeant Crews . Private Giles . At Lucknow . Captain Hutchinson . Private Pragnall . At Bullenshire Wareham . Higgison . Hammond . Private Clayton . King . Stillmann . 39 At Gungeree . Private Frampton . Dyson . 23 At Cawnpore . Corporal Standin . At Shunusabad . Private Wate . By accident . Private Daniels . " 5 " 2 23 " > King , 15 At Lucknow . Colonel A. Little , O. B. Sergeant Newman . " > " 7 " 3 Private Woolley . Everett . Mitchell . " Wells . Warner . 29 " } * Goff . At Bullenshire . Captain Drysdale . Sarrell Blair . Cornet Thonger . Private Jordan . Woodward . " " " " R. White . Holl . Turner . " " At Agra . Captain Jones . Sergt . Major Dean , Sergeant Hartigan . Roberts . Donohoe . Crotty . 33 Corporal Stanley . * Private Upton . Martin . W. Robinson , More . Caswell . At Gungeree Captain Head . At Shunusabad . Captain Steele . Willis . " " Kidds . 23 At Akarabad . Private Knight . At Allegunge . Sergeant C. May . Cain . Corporal Spillett . At Futtyghur . Private West . Mapes . Newell . " " " " At Merrygunge . Private O'Brien . At Cawnpore . Private M'Nulty . Senior . " " At Bareilly . Private W. Freeman . White 11 Those thus indicated afterwards died of the wounds , they had received . DIED OF FATIGUE AND SICKNESS . At Delhi . Sergeant Beecham . 33 Wynn . Carter . Corporal Roberts . " 3 " } " " Private Hutchins . Tassell . Davis . " 3 " " } } " } 33 " 9 " > " " 99 33 " " W. Smith . Dunn . Saunders . Beckley . " 3 " " Griffiths . Howland . Forrester . Robinson . 19 " } 29 19 29 " } Taylor . Hopkins . J. Newell . Hunt . Corner . Corkery . Thomas . Needen . H. Clarke . Williams . Evey . Baker . 3 ) At Umballa . Woods . Miller . Tpt . Major Nowland . Corporal Carr . Private Foster . Balls . Files . Sharbrook . Spicer . Cain . Doyle . Hadlow Gale . Wright . Hogg Vaughan . At Paneeput . Corporal Collins . Private Welsh . At Allipore . Corporal Peacock . Private Avery . Smithers . Parker . Lewis . 23 At Kussowlie . Private Ativell . Gould . " " " " 31 At Bullenshire . Sergeant Fills . At Futtyghur . Private Reynolds . In Oude . Sergeant Parker . Horwood . Corporal J. Shaw . Private Harris . " 3 " " At Lucknow . Private J. Fowkes . H. Hebbard . Standin . 93 " " At Cawnpore . Corporal Newman . Private . Wright . Bulman . W. Fowkes . " 3 Private Wright At Kurnaul , " > " " At Shahjeanpore . Major Harper . Private O'Brien . S. Smith . R. White . C. White . Morris . At Meerut . Private Newkham . Greenfield . In Rohilcund . Sergeant Richards . At Ferozepore . Private Kendo . Upwards of 200 horses belonging to the regiment were killed . FOUNDERING OF H.M.S. EURYDICE . Since 1870 , when the ill - fated captain and her crew were lost in a gale off the Spanish coast , nothing approaching to that unparalleled calamity had occurred until Sunday afternoon last , when the Eurydice , returning from a cruise to the West Indies . with 320 officers , men , and passengers , on board , foundered in a squall off the Isle of Wight , and all hands , with the exception of two seamen perished . A brief account of the catastrophe appears in our fourth page . During the past few years , several lads from Waltham Abbey and the locality having entered the Royal Navy . On the news of the loss of the ship and crew becoming known here , much anxiety was felt , and various reports were circulated as to several of the young men belonging to this neighbourhood having been among those that were lost . Unhappily we find , after making diligent enquiries , that in one case the reports have proved too true . A young man , 19 years of age , named James Garrett , a son of Mr William Garrett , of Waltham Abbey , has unfortu nately gone down with the lost ship . James Garrett joined the Royal Navy , December 3rd , 1875 , at Greenwich , and went on board the Fisgard . After staying there a few days he was transferred to the on board this spent the greater part of his time . From the St. Vincent he was drafted to go on board the Victory , then to the Duke of Wellington , and finally on board the ill - fated Eurydice . He was a good swimmer and liked the navy very well . There were two other Waltham lads with Garrett , when he was on board the St. Vincent , F. Dunn , ' and E. Risley , but as Garrett was the elder of the three he was rated as an ordinary seaman first , and left England in the Eury dice for the West Indies . Had all the three lads been of one age and passed as ordinary seamen together , in all probability the other two would have shared the same fate as Garrett . Appended are extracts from letters written by the unfortunate young man Garrett while on board the ill - fated ship to his friends in Waltham Abbey : On Sunday night , Nov. 11 , 1877 , I thought I should never have the opportunity of writing another letter to you . I shall never forget it to the day I die . We were in the Bay of Biscay and the heaviest gale that has been known for some time came on . It started about five o'clock , and at seven we heard the awful noise of Hands , save ship . The flying jibboom and dolphin - striker , and both whiskers and guys , and any amount of ropes were all carried away , as well as both gangways . The sea - upon my word I cannot describe it to you ; but if I were to tell you it was running as high as Colvin's Hill you might not believe me , though I can assure you it was . The ship was nearly half full of water . They manned the pumps every night to pump it out ; it is all out now . I can assure you , father , I was afraid to turn in my hanımock that night . We were going about with trousers turned up as high as we could get them . Some of the men were cursing and swearing , and wishing the ship would go down rather than that they should have to put up with so much trouble , and some of the others were down on their bended knees begging and praying for mercy . I can assure you I was miserable and wretched . I thought - there's father now sitting down in chapel listen ing to a sermon and in a place of shelter ; and here am I I expecting every moment to meet some fate or another . did curse the day that I left a good home to my heart ; but now I am happy to say the weather is changed and it is fine , and I am settled down again and as happy as ever . We expect to get into Lisbon to - night or to - morrow , so I thought I would write a letter and let you know how and where I was . We have had an unfavourable wind , and that has made . us so long getting round here . We have been to France and Ireland and Vigo and are now close to Portugal ( Spain ) . We have to go to a lot of places yet ; Bermuda , Canary Islands , and several others . On the 26th December last Garrett wrote. In haste I write a few lines to you to let you know that I spent a very happy Christmas ; plenty of everything . We got into Barbadoes last Wednesday , a week to day We are now getting up anchor and I have to hurry over this . I went ashore here last Thursday , and enjoyed myself much among the negroes , one of whom came to see me on Christmas day , and I had a good talk to him about different things . He told me that he had been a slave up in the sugar plantation . I went up there and saw all the sugar and cocoa nuts and bananas , etc. , growing . I have got a piece of sugar cane and the wings of a flying fish , and two or three other little things to bring home . It is very hot out here . We have to cover the ship over with an awning . It is like a tent to look at when it is covered . The awning is to keep the sun off . We sleep on the upper deck ; it is too hot below . This is a nice place ashore and very good people ; they all talk broken English . It is an island , you know , in the West Indies , but under English protection . So is Trinidad , which we shall see next Friday week , a West India island , only it belongs to Spain . You cannot get much sleep here for the weather I have had about seven hours sleep in five days . 26 The Annual Dinner of the 9th DR . Lancers Q.R. will take place at The Albion , Aldersgate Street , on Monday May at 8 veclock precisely 100 310 T. M. The Lost Colours . ' En Qemoriam An unsover is , requested ( if you OF THE dine to be sent to MRH , POWELL , Mess Cac Hr Craigs Court as early as possible . & N. J. A. C. 24TH REGIMENT . 22ND OF JANUARY , 1879 . X For the Benefit of the Isandlana War Fund . 26th 1884 . LONDON : MARCUS WARD & CO . 67 , 68 CHANDOS STREET . 1879 . |
