27th September

1st Battalion, 5th Foot
Privates
Blott J.- slightly wounded
Davin, W.- killed in action
Walsh, E.- wounded

32nd Foot
“At 4 am after a night of delay we started our Relief, leaving my party to protect their departure and bring up the rear. We got in with only one Sergeant wounded but I had 1 Corporal killed and 1 man wounded at the time we were doing nothing. We got safe into a Palace which had been taken the day before. “I found a room for myself and men and had the gate we came in at fortunately barricaded, when bang, bang, we found ourselves attacked by the Sepoys who had gotten into the Palace garden somehow and were firing from the wall. Poor McCabe (since dead) most gallantly led a party in and the Sepoys were precious soon taught a lesson by our men of the 5th and 90th. Five men of ours were killed 4 close to McCabe. The garden being cleared and things quiet for a time I had just breakfasted when a shot came through the door and wounded me in the foot so fighting was over for a time, but not that of the 32nd.” (Letter: Lt-Col. Edward Lowe, 4th October, 1857)

Lieutenant Colonel Edward William Howe de Lancy Lowe ( son of Lt.Gen. Hudson Lowe, KCB, Governor of St. Helena during Napoleon’s exile on the island) – wounded
Sergeant James Farroll – killed in action
School Master Sergeant Eward Vaughan – wounded

Corporals
Cooney (Cuney) William – killed in action
Finn – killed in action

Privates
Arthurs, Harry – wounded in the left elbow. “The musket ball entered over the external condyle, and passed out on the inner side of the olecranon opening into the joint; severe inflammation and
suppuration followed. The arm is now in a bent position, and the elbow joint is anchylosed.
He has lost the power over the fingers and has no feeling in half of the ring finger and little finger. June 22nd, 1858.-Invalided.”

Deady, Edward – wounded. Died of wounds
Smith, Michael – wounded. Died of wounds
Wood, Thomas – wounded. P Died of wounds – he had, before the mutiny, a run-in with Joly and was the reason for Waterfield’s miserable opinion of the Captain.
Sandry, Thomas – killed in action

Bandsman John Syms -burned in an explosion while resting at a captured mosque. The gunpowder was ignited by the shot of a fleeing sepoy.
Syms’ family – his parents and brother had been butchered at Cawnpore while two sisters were with him at the Residency, one married to a Colour Sergeant the other to the Drum Major. Syms was brought back to the Residency where he died in terrible agony. Private Metcalfe visited him at the hospital.
“About 10pm the two sisters came in to see him. He was then, poor fellow, very low indeed, and the two sisters, whose husbands were out in the City with a Sortie party, and they did not know whether they were dead or alive. I say that seeing these dear sisters talking about their loss at Cawnpore and their dying brother (the last prop of the family), why, it was simply heart-rending, so much so I had to beg of them to leave us and not embitter the poor lad’s last moments. “ Syms died a few moments later. When his body was finally prepared for burial -sewn up in a rug – the sisters begged to have one more look at him, but the workers refused to reopen the bag. They appealed to Metcalfe who not being able to “withstand” them, ordered the workers to cut the stitching. When they once again refused, Metcalfe took out a horse pistol he carried with him and said he would blow their brains out if they did not comply. The argument worked and the sisters got their wish. It was, however, much to Metcalfe’s discomfiture, for
“…the scene that ensued I won’t attempt to describe. However, I had almost to drag them away, almost more dead than alive.”

84th Foot
Private Joseph Bamford – killed in action

90th Foot
Captain James Perrin – dangerously wounded. Died of wounds

1st Madras Fusiliers
Sergeant Edward Edwards – penetrating gunshot wound of the left side of the chest, the bullet passing through the chest and the lung. Died of wounds on the 6th of October
Sergeant Thomas Lidster – killed in action

Corporals
Barrett, John – killed in action
Flegg, Frederick – gunshot wound of the right leg, fracturing the outer bone.
Shannahan, Michael – killed in action
Traynor, Edward – slightly wounded

Privates
Brown, Charles – flesh gunshot wound of the right thigh
Burke, Michael – flesh wound caused by a guns shot to the right shoulder
Connaughty, Thomas – severely wounded
Gibbons, William – killed in action
Hayes, Joseph – penetrating gunshot wound in the stomach. Died of wounds on the 29th of September
McCarthy, Dennis – flesh wound in right thigh
Quinlan – wounded (Neill’s Blue Caps” Vol II)

Bengal Artillery
Corporal Patrick Dunn, injured by fore wheel

On the 27th, Major Stephenson, leading the whole of his 1st Madras Fusiliers, made another sortie. They were divided into three divisions und Captains Galway, Raikes and Fraser. A part of the 32nd were conducted by Lt. Warner of the 7th Light Cavalry. The goal of the sortie was to attack the Garden Battery. Although they managed to gain the post, the rebels retaliated with such heavy firing they were forced to abandon the position and return to the Residency but not before they had spiked the guns and burned down the battery.
A Gentleman Volunteer of the Lucknow Garrison, Mr. Crabbe was killed on this occasion.

28th September

Lieutenant D.C. Anderson (Lucknow Garrison, serving at Gubbins’ Post) – wounded in the thigh while walking on the road outside the Bailey Guard Gate. He was struck by a 6lb shot which smashed his thigh bone and died before amputation could be carried out. According to Mr. Gubbins, who saw him shortly after he was brought in, he said, “You can at all events bear witness that I have done my duty.”
The planned sorties were deferred to the 29th and the men wounded and killed were injured in the Residency by the firing of the rebels.

Oudh Irregular Infantry
Captain E.J. Hughes – dangerously wounded. Died of wounds

32nd Foot
Private James Smith- wounded

84th Foot
Corporal Patrick Falvey – killed in action