"Surgeon-Captain R. C. JOHNSTON, M.B., is placed on retired pay July 6th. He was appointed Surgeon February 5th, 1881. He served in 1879 as Civil Surgeon in the Zulu war, and in the operations against the Chief Sekukuni, receiving the South African medal with clasp. He subsequently served in the Egyptian war of 1882 (medal, and Khedive's star), and with the Nile Expedition in 1884-85 when he had charge of the Debbeh Field Hospital (clasp)".