Diary of Anthony Dickson Home, surgeon, 90th Foot, re his voyage to India round the Cape of Good Hope, and the relief and subsequent siege of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny

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1857
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RAMC/268
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Royal Army Medical Corps Muniments Collection
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Diary of Anthony Dickson Home, surgeon, 90th Foot, re his voyage to India round the Cape of Good Hope, and the relief and subsequent siege of Lucknow during the Indian Mutiny. Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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[There is no entry for 26th Sept, the day Home won his Victoria Cross.] Enclosed: Extract from Tennyson's poem re siege of Lucknow, newspaper cutting re Victoria Crosses won in India, including those won at Lucknow by Privates Hollowell, McManus and Ryan, recommended by Home, and letter, 1874, re appreciation of Home's care for the men of the R[oyal] M[arines] Artillery and Light Infantry on the Gold Coast [now Ghana].

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1857

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1 volume

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