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A Diary Kept by Mrs. R. C. Germon, at Lucknow, Between the Months of May and December, 1857

RETURN OF KILLED AND WOUNDED.

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Transcriber's Note

Some of the entries in the following table have been abbreviated for space. The key used is—

Off. = Officers. V. = Vet Surgeons. W. = Warrant and Staff Sergeants. Srg. = Sergeants. RF. = Rank and File. Tot. = Total N. = Native Officers.

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RETURN OF KILLED AND WOUNDED—GARRISON OF LUCKNOW, from 30th JUNE to 26th SEPTEMBER, 1857.

DETAILS. EUROPEANS. NATIVES.

Killed and Died of Wounds. Wounded. Killed and Died of Wounds. Wounded.

Off. V. W. Sgt. RF. Tot. Off. V. W. Sgt. RF. Tot. N. Sgt. RF. Tot. N. Sgt. RF. Tot.

General and Brigade Staff 1 ... ... ... ... 1 3 ... ... ... ... 3 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

Artillery, Regular and Irregular 2 ... 2 6 14 24 6 ... 2 6 11 25 ... 3 8 11 1 2 7 10

Engineers 2 ... 2 ... ... 4 ... ... 1 ... ... 1 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

7th Regt. Light Cavalry 2 1 1 ... ... 4 1 ... ... ... ... 1 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

H.M. 32nd Regt. of Foot 3 ... ... 9 71 83 6 ... ... 15 118 139 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

H.M. 84th Regt. of Foot, detachment ... ... ... 2 10 12 1 ... ... ... 2 3 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

H.C. 13th Regt. N.I. 2 ... ... ... ... 2 1 ... ... ... 1 2 2 5 21 28 7 9 36 52

" 41st " " ... ... 1 ... ... 1 3 ... ... ... ... 3 ... ... 5 5 ... ... ... ...

" 48th " " ... ... ... ... ... ... 5 1 ... ... ... 6 ... 2 1 3 1 2 4 7

" 71st " " ... ... 1 ... ... 1 1 1 ... ... ... 2 1 2 6 9 1 6 5 12

Oude Irregular Force 2 ... ... ... ... 2 5 ... ... ... ... 5 ... 1 2 3 ... 3 10 13

Native Pensioners ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 7 9 ... 15 16 31

Native Levies ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 ... 1 2 ... ... 4 4

Lucknow Magazine Men ... ... 3 ... ... 3 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 2 ... ... 2 2

Officers not attached to the Brigade 2 ... ... ... ... 2 1 ... ... ... ... 1 ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ...

Grand Total 16 1 10 17 95 139 33 2 3 21 132 191 4 15 53 72 10 37 84 131

N.B.—1 Member C.S. killed and 3 wounded; 1 Chaplain wounded; 2 Civil Engineers wounded; 15 Merchants, Clerks, &c., killed and 9 wounded.

Memo.—Deaths from Sickness not included.

Transcriber's Notes:

Original unusual spellings have been retained. Minor punctuation errors corrected on pages 12, 24, 73, and 138. The following typos were corrected:

Page 52, "everthing" changed to "everything." (...and do everything, excepting the cooking...)

Page 57, "harldy" changed to "hardly." (...hardly any one is without them now.)

Page 57, "beeen" changed to "been." (... the firing had been very sharp...)

Page 84, the word "I" was missing in the original. (Rose and I did all...)

Page 86, "quite" changed to "quiet." ( The enemy tolerably quiet to-day...)

Page 106, "as" changed to "us." (...called and gave us full particulars of the whole affair...)

Spellings and hyphenation made consistent with these changes:

Page 17, "Mr. G——s'" changed to "Mr. G——'s." (This house, as well as Mr. G——'s...)

Page 19, "Martiniere" changed to "Martinière." (...Mrs. F—— to the Martinière College...)

Page 40, "smallpox" changed to "small-pox." (...as there is small-pox in both...)

Page 55, "Godowns" changed to "Go-downs." (...Go-downs were considered unhealthy...)

Page 104, "godown" changed to "go-down." (I took possession of my go-down...)

Page 115, "storeroom" changed to "store-room." (...in my store-room I had a very...)

The word "our's" has been standardized to "ours" on pages 57, 139, and 141.

The following corrections were made by handwritten note in the original book and were retained in our text here:

Page 24, "reals" changed to "rupees." (This man got 100 rupees...)

Page 27, "to" changed to "in." (...he went back in Sir Henry's carriage...)

Page 28, "Mr. A——" changed to "Mrs. A——." (As I and Mrs. A—— occupied Mrs. F——'s room...)

Page 45, "score" changed to "crore." (... said to be worth a crore of rupees!)

Page 51, "Major H——" changed to "Major B——." (Sir Henry then appointed Major B—— his successor.)

Page 52, "and" changed to "as." (...as they passed up and down...)

Page 54, "Mr. and Mrs. O——" changed to "He and Mr. O——." (He and Mr. O——, and two others...)

Page 79, "Mrs. C——" changed to "Mr. C——." (Mr. C—— was wounded.)

Page 81, "Mrs. S——" changed to "Mrs. L——." (...Mrs. P——, Mrs. B——, and Mrs. L——...)

Page 87, "running" changed to "mining." (The enemy were discovered mining...)

Page 125, "fright" changed to "fight." (He then told me of the fight they had coming in...)

Page 131, "have" changed to "leave." (...Mrs. B—— would not leave in her buggy...)

Page 144, "W.I." changed to "N.I." (H.C. 13th Regt. N.I.)

Page 144, in the column "Natives, Killed, Rank & File" and row "Artillery, Regular and Irregular," the number listed was changed from 9 to 8 based on the totals given for that row and column.

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