Survivors of the Punjab Campaigns

Dear Sir,?In a short obituary notice of Surgeon General G. H. Kay among the " Service Notes" on pages 78-79 of the issue of the " Gazette" for February 1909, reference is made to the services of the survivors of the Sutlej and Punjab Campaigns, from which one would infer that Surgeon Major W. F. MacTier took part in the former but not in the latter. As I thought this was incorrect I communicated with Surgeon-Major MacTier, who has lived for manyyeais at St. Andrews, N. Ii., and have just heard from him that he served throughout both Campaigns, being present at the actions of Ramnagar, Saidulapur, and Chillianwalah in the Punjab Campaign of '48-'19, as well as in the earlier Sutlpj Campaign. I thought this information might interest the compilers of the notes, who in some future issue of the " Gazette " might point out that there are still living two Indian medical officers survivors of both the Sikh Wars, viz., Surgeons-Major Hinton and MacTier. I may add that the latter also served on the Headquarters Staff with the force before Delhi 011 the Ridge, throughout the hot weather of '57. He is still a hale old gentleman who over his pipe and a glass of grog will relate many stories of sex-vice in the good old days of "John Company."