[254] During this month eight men of this Battalion were wounded in the trenches, and one man, wounded in December, died of his wounds. [255] Lieutenant-Colonel the Honourable Augustus H. A. Anson, V.C., retired. [256] In the official notification of the grant of the Victoria Cross, MacGregor is said to have performed this act of valour ‘in the month of July;’ but I have been repeatedly assured by Bradshaw that he, Humpston and MacGregor were together, and won their crosses on this occasion. [257] Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. James Stuart, died April 11, 1870. [258] Captain Saunders (retired) died May 28, 1863. [259] Lieutenant-Colonel Fitzroy Fremantle, Coldstream Guards. [260] One officer and 30 men of the 2nd Battalion were killed in action; and 4 officers and 125 men wounded during the month of June. Of these 12 cases proved fatal. [261] Three privates of the 2nd Battalion are returned in the ‘Gazette’ as killed and 13 wounded on July 3. [262] For his conduct on this occasion Fyers recommended Sergeant Kemp for the Victoria Cross, but he did not receive it. [263] Three men of the 2nd Battalion were killed, and 43 wounded during the month of July, of these 6 terminated fatally. And 4 men, wounded in June, died in this month. Fourteen men of the 1st Battalion were wounded in the trenches in August, 2 of whom died. And 2 men of the 2nd Battalion were killed, and more than 80 wounded, 6 of whom died. [264] Major Walter Francis Balfour, retired March 10, 1857. [265] Nineteen men of the 1st Battalion were wounded in action in September, of whom 2 died. One of these (William Hardinge) was so much injured about the head and face by the bursting of a shell (on September 5) that he died of lock-jaw on the 11th. And 25 men of the 2nd Battalion were killed, and 7 officers and 181 men were wounded in action, of whom 15 died of their wounds. [266] ‘Illustrated London News,’ xxvii. p. 394. A ‘Memoir of Captain M. M. Hammond’ was published in 1858. [267] Major-General Percy Hill, C.B. CHAPTER XI. The Sepoy Mutiny having broken out, and troops being despatched with all haste to quell it, the 2nd and 3rd Battalions received orders to embark immediately for India. The 2nd Battalion embarked in three divisions: The first under Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Woodford, consisting of 3 captains, 5 subalterns, 21 sergeants, 7 buglers and 322 rank and file, proceeded by rail from Dublin to Cork on August 3, and embarked on board the ‘Lady Jocelyn’ screw steamer. The second under Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel Fyers, consisting of 2 captains, 2 subalterns, 9 sergeants, 3 buglers and 146 rank and file, proceeded by railway to Kingstown and embarked on board the ‘United Kingdom’ on August 4.