Service memories / by Sir A.D. Home ; edited by Charles H. Melville.
- Home, A. D. (Anthony Dickson), Sir, 1826-1914.
- Date:
- 1912
Licence: In copyright
Credit: Service memories / by Sir A.D. Home ; edited by Charles H. Melville. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![CHAPTER II THE CRIMEAN WAR (1854) [Assistant-Surgeon Home proceeded to Nova Scotia early in 1851, and from that station returned to England towards the end of the same year, being posted to Guernsey. He was gazetted Staff Assistant-Surgeon on the 10th December, 1852, and Assistant-Surgeon, 8th Light Dragoons (now 8th King’s Royal Irish Hussars), on the 15th August, 1854. He was promoted to the rank of Surgeon, and appointed to the 13th Light Dragoons (now 13th Hussars) on the 9th February, 1855.] After return to England in 1851, I was attached to the Depot Companies of the regiment, with the service com- panies of which I had been in the West Indies. A pleasant period of duty was passed in Guernsey, and subsequently in the South and West of Ireland, at Fermoy, and Clare Castle, after which I was sent to Gibraltar, and there spent nearly eighteen months in very varied medical duties, a factotum, everything by turns. In August, 1854, desirous of seeing service in the tented field, as were so many others, I was appointed Assistant- Surgeon to the 8th Hussars, and was sent on to Malta to await a passage to Varna, where the regiment was with the Light Cavalry Brigade. A delay at Valetta was fatal to my prospect of being present at the first encounter of the allied English and French forces with the Russian army. A vessel taking stores for our troops gave me the oppor- tunity of continuing my onward journey, in the company of others similarly situated. The passage was a very interesting one, owing to the associations connected with](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28994760_0035.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
