Fleet-Surgeron John B.B. Triggs M.B

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John Bellhouse Bowden Triggs, age 28, was one of three surgeons serving on HMS Active during the Zulu War. The senior, Staff Surgeon Henry Norbury, and the junior, Surgeon William Thompson, served ashore as part of the Active's naval brigade. Surgeon Triggs remained on board Active in medical charge.

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DEATHS IN THE SERVICES.
FLEET SURGEON JOHN BELLHOUSE BOWDEN TRIGGS, R.N.(ret.), died in a nursing home at Malden, Surrey, on February 1st, 1927 aged 75. He was educated at University College, London,- and at Aberdeen, where he graduated M.B, and C.M. in 1873; he took the L.S.A. in 1872, and the M.R.C.S. in 1874, and entered the navy soon after; he was medical officer of H.M.S. Active during the Zulu war of 1879, receiving the medal. In 1892 he received a medal and diploma from the Venezuelan Red Cross Society for his services to the wounded in the neighborhood of La Guayra, during the revolution in Venezuela in that year.