Surgeon Major Edmund Baron Hartley VC

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COLONEL EDMUND BARON HARTLEY, V.C., C.M.G., Cape Colony Medical Corps (retired), died of heart failure following influenza on March 20th, aged 71. He was the eldest son of Dr. Edmund Hartley of Ivybridge, Devon, where he was born on May 6th, 1847. He served as a clerk in His Majesty's Inland Revenue from 1867 to 1869, after which he entered on the study of medicine-at St. George's Hospital, taking the diploma of M.R.C.S. in 1874 and that of L.R.C.P.Edin., in 1880. From 1874 to 1877 he was district surgeon in Basutoland. In 1877 he joined the Cape Colony forces as surgeon to the Cape Mounted Rifles; in 1878 he was appointed principal medical officer of these forces, and subsequently colonel in command of the Cape Medical Corps. He served in the Zulu war of 1877-79, including the Galeka, Gaika, Morosi, Tembu, and Basuto campaigns, gaining the V.C., medal, and clasps; in the Bechuanaland expedition of 1897, when he was wounded; and in the South African war, 1900-2, receiving the medal with five clasps and the, C.M.G. He was decorated with the Victoria Cross for valour in rescuing and bringing in wounded men under a heavy fire at the unsuccessful attack on Morosi's Mountain on June 5th, 1879.

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