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NARRATIVE OF THE CRIMEAN SERVICES 
OF 
“I” TROOP, NOW “0” BATTERY, R.H.A. 
BY 
ASSISTANT SURGEON R. THORNTON. 
CONTRIBUTED BY 
Colonel F. A. Wtiinyates, late R.H.A. 
At the Animal General Meeting of the R.A. Institution in June last, 
the Chairman, in the course of his remarks, suggested that papers 
bearing on the history of the Regiment would be both suitable and 
acceptable for insertion in the “ Proceedings/'’ I think, therefore, the 
following account of the Crimean services of (C I 33 Troop (now “ 0 ” 
Battery), R.H.A., by its Assistant Surgeon, which contains many 
interesting details often lost sight of in military histories, will be read 
with satisfaction by those who served in the campaign, as well as by the 
younger officers of the Regiment. To the Battery it must be a valuable 
record of an important episode in its career, especially as it bears 
tribute to its excellent conduct on all occasions. The MS. was given 
to Lieutenant W. Andrewes by Doctor Thornton when he left the troop, 
and he gave it to me some years ago. I have added some explanations 
as to individuals and some notes, but have left the narrative as far as 
possible in the exact words of the author, except where some slight 
alteration was needed, in order to make his meaning more clear. 
REPORT OF “ I ” TROOP, ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY, 
From 1st April, 1854, to 31st March, 1855. 
The period having now arrived for reporting the history of those 
committed to my care during the last year, a period crowded with 
momentous events, and which will go down the roll of history as one in 
which a great war with all its attendant evils was commenced, and an 
alliance, sealed in blood made with our gallant neighbours, the French, 
in the fields of Alma, Balaclava, and Inkerman. 
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