MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
Army Hospital Corps.
Surgeon Major John Dallas Edge, M.D.
cover 1879 (Aug.) XU5 to Ireland, endorsed "No stamps procurable. On active service in the Field. J. Dallas Edge Surgeon Major, Kwamagwasa, Zululand", showing "6d" due h.s. and some staining, backstamped "DURBAN/11/8/1879/NATAL" and "H & K - PACT./A/SE 8/1/1879". Photo.
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cover 1879 (Aug.) XU5 to Ireland, endorsed "No stamps procurable. On active service in the Field. J. Dallas Edge Surgeon Major, Kwamagwasa, Zululand", showing "6d" due h.s. and some staining, backstamped "DURBAN/11/8/1879/NATAL" and "H & K - PACT./A/SE 8/1/1879". Photo.
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Note:
He was noted on the 3rd December 1872 "to be promoted Staff Surgeon, as soon as he has qualified for the superior grade, in recognition of his gallant services when engaged against the Indians at Orange Walk, British Honduras" on the 1st September 1872.
There was an English mission station at Kwamagwaza and there is still a hospital there today.
Surgeon Majors ranked as Majors but after twenty years' full pay service they ranked as Lieutenant Colonels, but junior of the latter rank, except for choice of Quarters.
He was noted on the 3rd December 1872 "to be promoted Staff Surgeon, as soon as he has qualified for the superior grade, in recognition of his gallant services when engaged against the Indians at Orange Walk, British Honduras" on the 1st September 1872.
There was an English mission station at Kwamagwaza and there is still a hospital there today.
Surgeon Majors ranked as Majors but after twenty years' full pay service they ranked as Lieutenant Colonels, but junior of the latter rank, except for choice of Quarters.