Note 113 — BATTLES OF MAHARAJPOOR AND PUNNIAR. 29th. December, 1843.

Brigadier Stopford, C.B., of the 64th., who was killed on the 9th. of December, 1856, at the attack on Reshire, in Persia, commanded the 40th. at Maharajpoor, and fell whilst leading on his regiment, dangerously wounded, at the very muzzles of the enemy’s guns. For this service he was made Lieutenant-Colonel and a C.B. He lay for a considerable time wounded on the field, among the dying and the dead, men and horses, and might have fallen a victim to his own generosity. When his dooly or stretcher was sent for him from the rear, and he perceived Major-General Churchill lying near him mortally wounded, with both legs carried away by a cannon ball, like another Sidney, he said, “Oh! General you are worse than I am, you’ll bleed to death, you must go on this dooly.” Colonel Stopford was at last carried to the rear, and was only in time to bid farewell to the general who died immediately afterwards.