| Description | [1st part difficult to decipher due to over-writing]. In bed "with a bad fever and most rageing headache pains all over the body particularly the bones. Aching intolerable and in spite of the heat of this weather and the tent being like a hothouse, I was in a shiver the whole time. I could hardly describe how ill I have been for three days. We have 3 Asst. Surgeons & one Surgeon, if they do not manage to kill us between them it will not be their fault." A nephew of Mr. Antrobus and son of Lord Crofton [Lord Crofton of Leith co.Leitrim whose son Gustavus St. John, Captain. R.E., fell at Sebastopol 1855] recently joined his Company - "without exception the most idle, lazy young gentleman I ever came across". 17 yrs. old, "has never been to a public school, or any school in fact & learnt his Education as Queen's page .... Very well intentioned though thoroughly idle". Lord Cardigan has visited Camp and was "horrified to find his horses being fed on chaff & barley" as there is no hay. |