1 Dr. W. B,
2 Macleod,
3 The field-
4 surgeon.
5 184 HISTORY OF THE SIKHS.
6 noticed by the Commander-in-chief. “ Brigadier
7 Taylor, of Her Majesty’s 29th, fell nobly, as has -
8 already been told, in the discharge of duty. He is
9 himself beyond the reach of earthly praise, but it
10 is my earnest desire that his memory may be ho-
11 noured in his fall; and that his regiment, the army
12 with which he served, and his country, may know
13 thar no officer had a higher place in my poor esti-
14 mation for gallantry or skill than Brigadier C. C.
15 Taylor.”
16 The brigadiers of cavalry and artillery are all
17 noticed in the despatch in the most favourable
18 manner; and, also, the commanding officers of
19 regiments, troops, batteries, and detachments, as
20 ; well as the staff officers of the various depart-
21 ments.
22 Dr. Macleod’s exertions we had personally an
23 opportunity of witnessing; and, as superintending
24 surgeon, his labour was unwearied, and his atten-
25 tion to all most marked. There is, probably, no
26 medical officer in the service who could have filled
27 the appointment with more efficiency; and cer-
28 tainly none with more geal. But it becomes us
29 as faithful historians to refer to the appointment
30 formerly alluded to, the incumbent of which is
31 noticed along with the superintendent of the depét.
32 Neither at Feerozshuhur nor at Sobroan was this
33 gentleman present. On the one occasion he was
34 at Moodkee, and on the other in Feerozpore. It
35 seems, as we have said, an anomaly that the field-
36 surgeon should have been thus twenty miles absent