Sahib (72 page)

148
Quoted in Maxwell,
My God: Maiwand,
p. 151.

149
Quoted in Maxwell,
My God: Maiwand,
p. 177.

150
Reynolds,
Lee-Enfield Rifle,
p. 52.

151
Forbes-Mitchell,
Reminiscences,
pp. 286-7. This is hearsay evidence: Forbes-Mitchell did not fight in the Sikh wars.

152
A. M. McKenzie Annand,
Cavalry Surgeon
(London: 1971), PP. 134-5, 190.

153
Marsham (ed.),
Havelock,
p. 176.

154
Quoted in Anglesey,
Cavalry,
I, p. 274.

155
Cardew,
Hodson’s Horse,
p. 258.

156
Wilberforce,
Unrecorded Chapter,
pp. 27-8. The story about mercury-filled blades lacks any foundation.

157
MacGregor (ed.),
Life and Opinions,
I, pp. 171, 181.

158
Stephen Wood, ‘Blades of Glory: Swords of Scottish Infantry 1750-1900’, in
American Society of Arms Collectors’ Bulletin,
No. 72, Spring 1995.

159
Gordon-Alexander,
Recollections,
p. 147.

160
Russell,
Mutiny Diary,
p. 235.

161
MacGregor (ed.),
Life and Opinions,
I, pp. 47-8.

162
Frederick Roberts,
Letters Written during the Indian Mutiny
(London: 1924), pp. 93. 109.

163
Mountain,
Memoirs and Letters,
PP. 274-5.

164
Wilberforce,
Unrecorded Chapter,
PP. 149-50.

165
Bennell,
Maratha Wars,
pp. 289-90.

166
Annand,
Cavalry Surgeon,
p. 208.

167
Quoted in Anglesey,
Cavalry,
I, p. 222.

168
Quoted in Hector Bolitho,
The Galloping Third
(London: 1963), pp. 141-2.

169
Quoted in Bolitho,
Galloping Third,
pp. 148-50.

170
Quoted in Anglesey,
Cavalry,
I, pp. 263-4.

171
Marsham (ed.),
Havelock,
p. 166.

172
Marsham (ed.),
Havelock,
p. 174.

173
Anglesey (ed.),
Pearman’s Memoirs,
p. 68.

174
Quoted in Anglesey,
Cavalry,
I, pp. 279-80.

175
Quoted in Anglesey,
Cavalry,
I, p. 280.

176
Quoted in Anglesey,
Cavalry,
I, p. 287.

177
Wolseley,
Story,
I, pp. 353-5.

178
MacGregor (ed.),
Life and Opinions,
II, p. 161.

179
Quoted in Cardew,
Hodson’s Horse,
p. 58.

180
Quoted in Yule and Burnell,
Hobson-Jobson,
p. 702.

181
Dunlop,
Mooltan.

182
Le Mesurier,
Kandahar,
p. 64.

183
G. R. Gleig,
Sale’s Brigade in Afghanistan
(London: 1846), p. 55.

184
Although this officer died a major general, he should not be confused with his more famous namesake, Sir Colin Campbell, (later Field Marshal Lord Clyde).

185
‘Lieutenant John Pester’, in Brander (ed.),
Sword and Pen,
pp. 5-6.

186
Fortescue,
History,
XII, p. 80.

187
Pennycuick Diary, Pennycuick Papers, private collection.

188
Pennycuick Diary, Pennycuick Papers, private collection.

189
Clark Kennedy,
Victorian Soldier,
P. 43.

190
Callwell,
Stray Recollections,
I, pp. 96-7, 112.

191
Extract from ‘Parade Song of the Camp Animals’ from
Rudyard Kipling’s Verse,
p. 559.

192
Clark Kennedy,
Victorian Soldier,
P. 49.

193
Ryder in appendix to Swinson and Scott (eds),
Waterfield,
p. 165.

194
Swinson and Scott (eds),
Waterfield,
pp. 78, 85.

195
Quoted in Clark Kennedy,
Victorian Soldier,
p. 59.

196
Daly (ed.),
Memoirs,
pp. 46, 51.

197
Swinson and Scott (eds),
Waterfield,
pp. 41, 58. Smyth was luckier. His name changed to James Doddington Carmichael, he commanded the 32nd in 1857-60, and, military duties laid aside, at last felt free to marry in 1869.

198
Shipp,
Paths of Glory,
p. 75.

199
Shipp,
Paths of Glory,
p. 76.

200
Shipp,
Paths of Glory,
p. 78.

201
Griffiths,
Narrative,
p. 174.

202
Ryder in Swinson and Scott (eds),
Waterfield,
p. 170.

203
Daly (ed.),
Memoirs,
pp. 147-9.

204
Germon,
Journal,
p. 58.

205
Katharine Mary Bartrum,
A Widow’s Reminiscences of the Siege of Lucknow
(London: 1858), pp. 35-7.

206
Inglis,
Siege of Lucknow,
p. 117.

207
Germon,
Journal,
p. 85.

208
Home,
Service Memoirs,
pp. 130, 138, 144.

209
Germon,
Journal,
p. 108.

210
Germ
on, Journal,
pp. 92, 93, 97.

211
L. E. Runtz Rees,
A Personal Narrative of the Siege of Lucknow
(London: 1858), p. 167.

212
Rees, Personal Narrative, p.
126.

213
Home,
Service Memoirs, p.
124.

214
Germon,
Journal, pp.
97-8.

215
Home,
Service Memoirs,
p. 151.

216
Russell,
Mutiny Diary, p.
51.

217
Marsham (ed.),
Havelock, p.
441.

218
Germon,
Journal, p.
128.

219
Fortescue,
History,
XII p. 246.

220
Ensign C. G. C. Stapylton, ‘The First Afghan War: An Ensign’s Account’, private collection.

221
MacRory, Patrick (ed),
Bryden’s Account,
p. 168.

222
Marsham (ed.),
Havelock,
pp. 104-5.

223
Marsham (ed.),
Havelock, p.
108.

224
Gleig,
Sale’s Brigade, p.
156.

225
Stapylton, ‘Ensign’s Account’.

226
Gleig,
Sale’s Brigade, p.
165.

227
Quoted in Robson,
Road to Kabul, p.
168.

228
MacGregor (ed.),
Life and Opinions,
II, p. 167.

229
Quoted in Robson,
Road to Kabul, p.
170.

230
Quoted in Sym,
Seaforth Highlanders,
pp. 98-9.

231
Roberts,
Forty-One Years,
p. 454.

232
Quoted in Bruce,
Six Battles,
pp. 322-3.

233
Home,
Service Memoirs, p.
132.

234
Shipp,
Paths of Glory,
pp. 70-1.

235
Gordon-Alexander,
Highland Subaltern, p.
280.

236
Quoted in Tuker (ed.),
Metcalfe,
pp. 109-10.

237
Roberts,
Forty-One Years,
p. 106 and
Letters, p.
25.

238
Quoted in Rees,
Personal Narrative,
pp. 79-80.

239
Quennell (ed.),
William Hickey,
IV, pp. 72-3.

240
Anglesey (ed.),
Pearman’s Memoirs,
P. 94.

241
John Frazer, ‘Field Surgeon at the Battle of Aliwal’,
Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research,
No. 72, 1994, p. 44.

242
Bayley,
Reminiscences,
p. 199.

243
Elers,
Memoirs,
p. 93.

244
Quoted in Bruce,
Six Battles,
pp. 152-3.

245
John Edward Wharton Rotton,
The Chaplain’s Narrative of the Siege of Delhi
(London: 1858), pp. 135-6.

246
Vibart,
Sepoy Mutiny
pp. 100-1.

247
Russell,
Mutiny Diary,
p. 14.

248
Russell,
Mutiny Diary
p. 97.

249
Bromfield (ed.),
Lahore to Lucknow,
p. 90.

250
Shipp,
Paths of Glory
p. 62.

251
Elers,
Memoirs,
pp. 117-18.

252
Gordon-Alexander,
Highland Subaltern,
p. 152.

253
Lutyens,
The Lyttons,
p. 42.

1
Griffiths,
Narrative,
p. 175.

2
Anglesey (ed.),
Pearman’s Memoirs,
p. 56.

3
Quoted in Anglesey,
Cavalry
I, p. 269.

4
Colonel H. M. Vibart,
Richard Baird Smith
(London: 1897), p. 63.

5
Griffiths,
Narrative,
p. 175.

6
Anglesey (ed.),
Pearman’s Memoirs,
P. 37.

7
George Loy Smith,
A Victorian RSM
(London: 1987), p. 32.

8
Wood,
Gunner at Large,
p. 96.

9
Samuel West in National Army Museum, 1996-04-220-4.

10
Quoted in Anglesey,
Cavalry
I, p. 144.

11
Gurwood,
Dispatches,
p. 42.

12
Bancroft,
Recruit to Staff Sergeant,
pp. 69-70.

13
Callwell,
Stray Recollections,
I, p. 243.

14
Swinson and Scott (eds),
Waterfield,
p. 61.

15
Anglesey (ed.),
Pearman’s Memoirs,
p. 62.

16
Ian Colvin,
The Life of General Dyer
(London: 1929), pp. 4, 16.

17
Anson,
With HM 9th Lancers,
p. 2.

18
‘LieutenantJohn Pester’, in Brander (ed.),
Sword and Pen,
pp. 9, 11.

19
Elers,
Memoirs,
pp. 120-1.

20
Wilberforce,
Unrecorded Chapter,
pp. 167-9.

21
Mackenzie,
Mutiny Memoirs,
pp. 189-90.

22
Wilberforce,
Unrecorded Chapter,
pp. 8-9.

23
Kipling’s Verse,
p. ??.

24
Quoted in Birkenhead,
Kipling,
p. 69.

25
General order in Gomm Papers, National Army Museum.

26
Letter of 27 May 1851 in Gomm Papers, National Army Museum.

27
Carter journal in British Library, Oriental and India Office Collections, Mss Eur E262. Whatever one’s views about capital punishment, it is clear that George Carter approved of the sentence: there are sharp annotations of ‘yea, yea’ at key points in his journal.

28
Wolseley,
Story,
I, pp. 200, 271.

29
Hervey,
Soldier of the Company
p. 60.

30
George Rybot diary, National Army Museum, 7907-99.

31
Henry Davis van Homrigh Papers, National Army Museum, 6305-55.

32
Swinson and Scott (eds),
Waterfield,
p. xiii.

33
Quoted in Grey,
European Adventurers,
p. 216.

34
Wilberforce,
Unrecorded Chapter,
pp. 41-3.

35
Griffiths,
Narrative,
pp. 44-50.

36
Vansittart (ed.),
From Minnie, with Love,
p. 104.

37
Mason,
Matter of Honour,
p. 202.

38
Swinson and Scott (eds),
Waterfield,
P. 34.

39
Gordon-Alexander,
Recollections,
p. 6.

40
Shipp,
Paths of Glory,
p. 96.

41
Smith,
Victorian RSM,
p. 44.

42
MacGregor,
Life and Opinions,
II, p. 127.

43
Quoted in Stephen Wood, ‘Movements for Temperance in the British Army 1835-1895’, Unpublished MA Thesis, University of London, 1984, p. 28.

44
Quoted in Wood, ‘Temperance’, p. 6.

45
Quoted in Wood, ‘Temperance’, P. 9.

46
Smith,
Victorian RSM,
p. 18.

47
Quoted in Wood, ‘Temperance’, p. 24.

48
Shipp,
Paths of Glory,
p. 49.

49
A. W. Lawrence (ed.),
Captives of Tipu: Survivors’ Narratives
(London: 1929), P. 198.

50
Forbes-Mitchell,
Reminiscences,
pp. 125-6.

51
Quennell (ed.),
William Hickey,
III, p. 159.

52
Quennell (ed.),
William Hickey,
IV, P. 327.

53
Quennell (ed.),
William Hickey,
IV, PP. 123-33, 140, 159.

54
Grey,
European Adventurers,
p. 293.

55
Quoted in Spear,
Nabobs,
p. 79.

56
Gordon,
Soldier of the Raj,
p. 84.

57
Quoted in Kincaid,
Social Life,
p. 94.

58
Quoted in Spear,
Nabobs,
p. 35.

59
Quoted in Compton,
European Military Adventurers,
p. 359.

60
Compton,
European Military Adventurers,
p. 361.

61
Spear,
Nabobs,
p. 13.

62
Quoted in Holman,
Sikander Sahib,
p. 226.

63
Fane,
Miss Fane,
pp. 32-3.

64
Spear,
Nabobs,
p. 134.

65
Quoted in James,
Raj,
p. 162.

66
Quoted in Holman,
Sikander Sahib,
p. 213.

67
Quoted in Kincaid,
Social Life,
p. 163.