Intombi Cemetery Memorials, Ladysmith: Anglo-Boer War 1899 16

PRICE-DENT, PH (or F?) - Captain, Devonshire Regt.
d. of wounds received in action Jan 1st 1900
Siege of Ladysmith
Aged 30 years
'R.I.P.'

Royal Army Medical Corps, Natal Army
killed in action or died from wounds or disease
Boer War 1899-1902 'R.I.P.'

Majors:
WALKER, CP
MINNIEGE, J
GRAY, EW
HILLIARD, G (C.M.G.)

Captains:
HUGHES, MI
HOLT, RHE
WALKER, GS

Lieuts:
JONES, GWG
ONRAET, HB

WARING, W Major, Militia M.S.C.

HALL-OWEN, J, Capt. Vict. M.M.S.
HALL, AW, V.M.C. Lieut

STOKES, W, Consulting Surgeon

Civil Surgeons:
IRVINE, R
PRESTWICK, J
SMITH, E
WICKER, S

Nursing Sisters:
CALCLEIGH, J
CHOWN, SC
FATHERS, L
GARDINER, EM
TRERESA (?)

WATKEN, WH, Sgt Maj

2nd Class Staff Sergeants:
BARRY, R
BLACKFORD, J
JARVIS, CW
WILMOT, J

Sergeants:
BRIGHT, J
BRINGESS, H
MURRAY, R

Corporals:
BISHOP, A
GRAY, H
READ, A
SCARLETT, WA
UNDERWOOD, H

Privates:
AYRIS, S
BEESTON, AH
BINNS, H
CHEETHAM, S
COTTON, D
COWLAND, R
FISHER, I
FOSTER, J
FROST, H
GALE, EH
GIBSON, W
GREENOW, J
HAROLD, HW
HAYNES, M
HEWLETT, W
HORTON, ES
HORTON, J
LAMB, WF
MAPLEY, AH
MAPKLEY, W
MARSH, S
MOON, A
PHILLIPS, T
RODWELL, J
SIBERRY, J
SOUTHAM, A
SPENCE, A
SWAIN, WI
THRUSH, F
VANDRILL, H
WHARTON, T
WILLIAMSON, G
WILSON, D
WOOD, FG

Note: The Royal Army Medical Corps was formed in 1898 by amalgamating the Medical Staff (officers) and Medical Staff Corps (men). A surgeon, with a small staff, was attached to every unit. At his disposal were trained ambulance men (2 for each company). Every brigade of infantry or cavalry had a medical company, each in action being divided into an ambulance section, a collection station, the ambulances and a dressing station. Wounded were brought to the dressing stations by the ambulances and ambulance men, and after being treated were passed on, if necessary, to field hospitals. A field hospital was attached to every division, and to the corps troops. In all, an army corps had 10 field hospitals, each of which had room for 100 sick or wounded. The war was to highlight inadequacies of the medical corps.

Apart from caring for the wounded and sick, RAMC responsibilities included hygiene, sanitation, monitoring water supplies, etc. It was in this area that the army was found wanting. Sickness was to cause more deaths than military action in the Anglo-Boer War.

Photographs: Dixon-Smith

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