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Ancestors in British India often followed the professions of '''Apothecary''' (title changed in 1894 to '''Assistant Surgeon''') and it is hoped that this article will help you to track yours down and learn more about how they lived and worked.
==Overview==
:The stewards and their assistants are charged with all the details relating to the food, clothing, and similar interior economy of military hospitals. Both classes aid the surgeon in the preparation of official reports and statements." [http://books.google.com/books?id=akkBAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA444 Full article]
===Further reading 1===
*[http://books.google.com/books?id=XhoCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA158 "The Loodianah Field Hospital, With Remarks On The State of The Army Medical Department in India" by John Murray, M.D., Field Surgeon. page 158, ''Medical Times'' (1849)] - an article about a Field Hospital after battle in 1846 including medical details, with the slightly wounded carried out on elephants.
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*'''Subordinate Medical Department staff mentioned, killed or wounded during the Indian Mutiny'''The following names are from the book ''Bulletins and other State Intelligencefor the Year 1858 in Four Parts'', first published in the London Gazette (published in 1860, pages [http://books.google.com/books?id=0tU1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1687 1687], [http)://books.google.com/books?id=0tU1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1886 1886], [http://books.google.com/books?id=0tU1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA2096 2096])
:*Page 1687[http: //books.google.com/books?id=0tU1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1687 ''Nominal Roll of Europeans Killed, Wounded, and Missing, in the Army under the command of his Excellency the Commander-in-Chief.'' ] Head-Quarters, Camp before Lucknow. March 14, 1858
::- 3rd Brigade, Bengal Horse Artillery. Officiating Apothecary R. W. Beale, severe contusion on 8th instant.
::- Her Majesty's 23rd Fusiliers. Hospital Apprentice R. Pereira, severe contusion
:*Page 1886[http: //books.google.com/books?id=0tU1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1886 ''List of Europeans Killed by the hands of Rebels''], as per Return furnished by the Magistrate of Delhi, between May 11 and October 24, 1857
::- Mr. T. Corbet, Sub. Medical Department, Delhi.
:*Page 2098[http: //books.google.com/books?id=0tU1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA2096 ''Return of Killed and Wounded of the 2nd Brigade Nerbudda Field Force during the Siege and Attack of Rathghur''. ] (Bombay Presidency, around March 1858)
::- 1st Troop Horse Artillery. Assistant Apothecary W. Conway, wounded dangerously, ball through head
:*[http://books.google.com/books?id=DNI1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1616 Benares, June 1857] Killed, One apothecary, Her Majesty’s 10th, murdered by 37th [N.I.] men (report commences page 1616, death listed page 1620)
:*[http://books.google.com/books?id=DNI1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1622 Benares 4 June 1857] HM 10th Regiment of Foot: Killed: Hospital Apprentice Edwin Courtenay Jackson, gunshot wounds, head, hip, and thigh; killed while proceeding with hospital supplies to the scene of action.
:*[http://books.google.com/books?id=09M1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA886 Oude Irregular Force:] Apothecary Thompson is mentioned in the following reports:
::[http://books.google.com/books?id=09M1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA123 ''No. 2. General Orders by the Governor-General of India in Council''] (Fort William December 5, 1857) (No 1,543.) (report commences page 119, mention page 123) THE Governor-General in Council has received from Brigadier Inglis, of Her Majesty s 32nd Regiment, lately commanding the garrison in Lucknow, the subjoined report of the defence of the Residency in that city, from the first- threatened attack upon it on the 29th of June to the arrival of the force under Major-General Sir J. Outram, G.C.B., and the lamented Major- General Sir H. Havelock, K.C.B on the 25th of September.
:::"The medical officers of the garrison are well entitled to the cordial thanks of the Government of India. The attention, skill, and energy, evinced by...., and of Mr. Apothecary Thompson, are spoken of in high terms by Brigadier Inglis."
::[http://books.google.com/books?id=09M1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA144 ''No. 3. Brigadier Inglis, Commanding Garrison of Lucknow. to the Secretary to the Government, Military Department, Calcutta.''] (Lucknow. September 26, 1857) (report commences page 127, mention page 144)
:::"I beg particularly to call the attention of the Government, of India to the untiring industry, the extreme devotion, and the great skill which have been evinced by Surgeons ....and by Mr. Apothecary Thompson—in the discharge of their onerous and most important duties."
:*''[http://books.google.com/books?id=09M1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA667 Transferred to the Medical College Hospital, from Allahabad, as sick and wounded.]''(Along with many from the 1st Madras Fusiliers, possibly around October 1857)
::- Assistant-Apothecary J. C. Ellis
::- Hospital Apprentice John Volkers.
:*''[http://books.google.com/books?id=09M1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA807 Numerical Return of Killed and Wounded of the Troops composing the Garrison of Lucknow]'', from the 25th of September, 1857, to the 9th of November, 1857, under Brigadier J. Inglis. Commanding. Lucknow, November 12, 1857 - One hospital apprentice of H.M.'s 32nd Regiment, mortally wounded, since dead, is not included in the above.
:*''[http://books.google.com/books?id=Tqc1AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA3477 From the Nominal Roll of Casualties in Brigadier Berkeley's Field Force on the 17th July, 1858.]'' Camp, Soraon, July 19, 1858. Assistant Apothecary George Wade, Royal Horse Artillery, killed by round shot.
*'''Murder of Apothecary Healy''' (sometimes spelt Healey) by tribesmen, while travelling to his unit (1850). See [http://books.google.com/books?id=axgYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA281 ''Allen's Indian Mail'' page 281], also [http://books.google.com/books?id=axgYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA313 p313], [http://books.google.com/books?id=axgYAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA351 p351] and [http://books.google.com/books?id=vRoCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA394 ''Medical Times'', Jan-June 1850 p394].
