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Colonel Richard Calvert Healy was commissioned into the Commissariat and Transport Staff in February 1870, shortly afterwards seeing active service under Sir Garnet Wolseley in the Ashantee operations of 1873-74.
Next actively engaged in the South Africa operations of 1879, he arrived at Fort Tenedos in January of that year and assumed command of the Transport in the Southern Column. Afterwards appointed Director of Transport and President of the Remount Committee at Head Quarters, Healy subsequently served as Commissary General in Crealock's Division and established a Supply Base at Port Durnford. On the breaking up of the Division, he assumed charge of the Lines of Communication from the Lower Tugela and Port Durnford to Ulundi, an appointment that witnessed his participation in the removal of stores on the evacuation of Zululand on the Southern Line, and the clearance of the Ordnance Depot on the Lower Tugela.
Advanced to Deputy Commissary General in June 1880, which rank was equivalent to that of Colonel, Healy went on to witness a final stint of active service in the Egypt operations of 1882.
Next actively engaged in the South Africa operations of 1879, he arrived at Fort Tenedos in January of that year and assumed command of the Transport in the Southern Column. Afterwards appointed Director of Transport and President of the Remount Committee at Head Quarters, Healy subsequently served as Commissary General in Crealock's Division and established a Supply Base at Port Durnford. On the breaking up of the Division, he assumed charge of the Lines of Communication from the Lower Tugela and Port Durnford to Ulundi, an appointment that witnessed his participation in the removal of stores on the evacuation of Zululand on the Southern Line, and the clearance of the Ordnance Depot on the Lower Tugela.
Advanced to Deputy Commissary General in June 1880, which rank was equivalent to that of Colonel, Healy went on to witness a final stint of active service in the Egypt operations of 1882.