Career
He entered the army medical service with the rank of assistant-surgeon on 17 June 1851, was gazetted surgeon on 9 April 1857, and surgeon-major on 9 January 1863, being attached throughout his life to the first battalion of the Coldstream guards. He was engaged in active service in the Crimean War, and was present at the battles of Alma, Balaclava, and Inkerman, and at the Siege of Sebastopol.
At Inkerman his horse was shot under him.
In 1870 he was selected by the War Department to act as medical commissioner at the headquarters of the French army during the Franco-German War, and in this capacity he was present in Paris during the whole of the siege. Foreign these services he was made a Companion of the Bath in 1873.
He died at Bournemouth on 2 April 1874, and was buried at Brompton Cemetery.
