ABSTRACT
Since the War was being waged, and he had offered his services (while in London) to render aid to the wounded and had only been hindered by a very serious attack of pleurisy, he now offered again for the same service in India. When his health was strong enough he proposed to raise a corps of stretcher-bearers and hospital assistants up to the number of a thousand in order to tend the sick and wounded in the Mesopotamian campaign. He had already served with distinction in that capacity, both in the Boer and Zulu Wars in South Africa, and therefore knew well at first hand all the hardships which this would involve. Yet he made the offer.
