Memorandum of the Services of Dr James Barry Inspector General of Hospitals

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Memorandum of the Services of Dr James Barry Inspector General of Hospitals.

I entered the Army as a medical officer under the age of fourteen years and served first at the Cape of Good Hope about thirteen years attached to the personal Staff of the late General Lord Charles Somerset on whose resignation, I was promoted to the rank of Staff Surgeon and sent to the Mauritius. I served there about eighteen months and was recalled in consequence of the serious illness of Lord Charles Somerset upon whose death I proceeded to Jamaica and served under Sir Willoughby Cotton during the Rebellion and the burning of the Plantations by the Negroes. I was in medical charge of the Troops employed on that service the Inspector General remaining at Head Quarters….