Dr K/E? M O'Callaghan Army Medical Department

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There are two O'Callaghan's in the Army Medical Department
Civil Surgeon G H K O'Callaghan 1879 clasp
Private 2331 P O'Callaghan 1879 clasp
N/t trace M+S
John is he one of the missing officers from M+S?

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Homeward Mail from India, China and the East - Saturday 23 December 1911

Kate,

The Army Medical Department in M.&S. is a complete nonsense. The authors had not received full details of services before it went to press.

Even then an erratum slip was issued as on page 370 a number of names that should have followed the entry for the A.M.D. appear followed the listing for Army Hospital Corps. Included in the number is Surgeon-Major J. H. Reynolds, M.B., V.C., which is where I think the film got the information from.

That said Dr. George Henry Kenneth O’Callaghan, then a Civil Surgeon served with the 2nd Division, and no he does not appear in M.&S. Joined the A.M.D. In March 1880.

JY

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Hi John
Does the Greenhill edition have all these missings officers or is it just the index with a short introduction by your good self?

Kate,

Here’s my introduction to the index:

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The South African Campaign of 1879 Greenhill reprint

I also modernised the place-names involved.

I was criticised when it was released for not including the names of all of those who received the Victoria Cross at Rorke’s Drift. I had to point out to the critic that not all of them were named in the text of the original publication. So in answer to your question if they did not appear in the 1880 original publication, or the 1882 edition, then their names are not in the reprint.

JY

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Thanks John.
Thats handy to know. Salute

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Hi All,
George Henry Kenneth McDonald O'Callaghan served with Newdigate's Division then with Wood's Column during the Zulu War. 1880 he was stationed at Devonport, 1888 Surgeon Army Med Staff. Probably Married for a second time 13 Sept 1888 to Susanna Charlton Harding in St Luke's Brislington, Bristol. By 1895 she brought a divorce petition against George after he abandoned her and his children. In 1899 he was jailed for wilful damage to his father in laws home, smashing the front door and breaking windows. On 29 April 1904 at Keynsham Petty Sessions he was charged with Manslaughter of a woman who died after childbirth, he was acquitted for lack of evidence.
Rai KLH

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