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 ANTHONY DICKSON HOME  (Surgeon, now Surgeon-General, K.C.B.)  90^th Perthshire Volunteer Light Infantry (2^nd Scottish Rifles)            Sir Anthony Home was, then Havelock entered Lucknow on September 26^th 1857, in charge of the wounded in rear of the column.  The small escort left with him had been nearly all wounded, and the whole became separated from the main body.  The few remaining men were forced to enter a house, which they defended till it was set on fire, upon which they took shelter in a shed which they held for twenty-two hours, till at length only six men and Dr. Home were able to fire.  The four officers with him being all wounded, the command devolved on him.  By his energy and example he stimulated all to action, and through him the defence was successful and the wounded eventually saved. Three of the wounded officers died soon afterwards, owing to the hardships they had undergone.          Sir Anthony Dickson Home, V.C., K.C.B. (1874), was born in 1823.  Entered the Army Medical Department in 1848.  Served in the Crimean War; the Indian Mutiny; the China War of 1860; New Zealand Campaign 1863-5, and the Ashantee War of 1873; in the latter war he served as Principal Medical Officer, and held the same position in Cyprus during 1878-9, and to the forces in India from 1881 to 1885.  Was promoted to Surgeon-General in 1880, retiring in 1886.