[237] Captain Markham retired (from the Coldstream Guards) December 23, 1858. [238] Nine men of the 1st Battalion were wounded in the trenches during the month of October, of whom two died almost immediately, and one underwent amputation of the left thigh; and of the 2nd Battalion four men were killed in the trenches, and an officer and twenty-five men were wounded; of these five died. [239] For this distinguished service Captain Elrington was recommended for the Victoria Cross; but Sir George Brown demurred to forward the recommendation, on the ground that the 2nd Battalion had not been engaged in the battle of Inkerman! The fact being that three companies were there, and suffered the casualties hereafter noted. [240] Kinglake, vol. v. p. 298, quoting a letter from Lieutenant Bramston, Rifle Brigade. [241] Lieutenant-Colonel John Brett, retired full-pay. [242] Captain William Higgins, Quartermaster, half-pay. [243] Major Coote Buller died April 5, 1868. [244] Major G. R. Noseley, Paymaster, half-pay. [245] ‘Malcolm was shot through the head; a finer and more gallant young fellow never lived.... There is not an officer in the Regiment who does not sincerely regret him.’--Ross’s Letter, November 7, 1854. [246] Colonel Claude T. Bourchier, V.C., Aide-de-Camp to the Queen. [247] Major Sir William J. M. Cuninghame, Bart., V.C., M.P., retired. [248] I am indebted to Marshal Canrobert for a copy of this order, which conferred so unusual and marked a distinction on the Regiment. In the letter which accompanied the transcript the Marshal expresses his appreciation of ‘la magnifique conduite du détachment de la Rifle Brigade commandé par le Capitaine Tryon.’ [249] 105 men were employed on other duties connected with the service of the army. [250] In order to show the state to which the Battalion was reduced by sickness and losses in the field, I may quote the Duty State of Woodford’s company on January 19, 1855, which I owe to the kindness of the Hon. and Rev. George B. Legge. By this it appears that the company which left England six months before with a strength of about 100 men, had then present and nominally fit for duty just _one sergeant and eight men_. Of these some were in an exhausted and hardly efficient condition. Four non-commissioned officers and 25 privates were returned as ‘in or attending hospital,’ and 6 non-commissioned officers, 1 bugler and 42 privates were at Balaklava or Scutari, wounded or sick. The ‘Medical and Surgical History’ states that during the month of November 2 officers and 29 men of the 1st Battalion were killed in action or in the trenches; and 3 officers and 131 men were wounded, of whom 13 died. And that in the 2nd Battalion, 13 men were killed, and 1 officer and 33 men were wounded, of whom three suffered amputation. [251] Lieutenant-Colonel C. H. S. Churchill. [252] Lieutenant-Colonel E. W. Blackett, half-pay. [253] ‘Letters from Head-quarters by a Staff Officer,’ 191, 3rd edition.