SINGLE CAMPAIGN MEDALS Carey continues:
‘Thus, up to the sixth mile from home did I continue to fly, when, finding my mare completely done, and meeting one of our sowars, I immediately stopped him, jumped up behind, and ordered him to hasten back to Mynpoorie. After going about a mile on this beast we came up to poor Hayes’s horse, which had been caught; so on him I sprang, and he bore me safely back to the cantonments. It was indeed a ride for life or death; and only when I alighted at the magistrate’s Cutcherry, in which all the Europeans were assembled, did I feel at all comfortable. Men were immediately sent out to look for the body [Hayes] and bring it in, and ascertain the fate of Barbor, the adjutant, and young Fayrer, who were known to have left their last encamping ground with the men. In the afternoon poor Hayes’s body was brought in, his head most frightfully hacked about, his right hand cut off, and his left fearfully lacerated - his watch, rings, boots all gone, and his clothes all cut and torn to pieces. Poor fellow! It was a sad fate for such a good and clever man, and deeply do I feel the loss of one who was ever a kind friend to me, anxious to serve me by every means in his power; gladly would I have assisted him had I had it in my power; but what could I do against 200 infuriated fanatics? Poor Hayes was not eight yards from me when he fell, and one instant’s delay would have been certain death to me. One old Sikh sirdar with two followers, who stood aloof from these acts of murder, and one of Hayes’s servants, brought in his body, and from them I learned that poor young Fayrer’s and Barbor’s remains were also being brought in. A dastardly villain of a sowar, stole behind young Fayrer, as he was drinking at a well, and with one blow of his tulwar on his neck killed him; he fell back, his head half severed from his body. The old Sikh rushed forward to raise him, and ordered them to seize the murderer, when another man said, “What are you with these kaffirs; take care of yourself.” On raising up poor young Fayrer’s head the poor man breathed his last.’
‘Barbor fled up the road, several giving chase; he shot one horse and two of the sowars, when he was hit with a ball and then cut down, his property taken off, his horse seized, and then they all rode off towards Delhi. Fayrer was killed about ten minutes before we came up; then they killed poor Hayes, then Barbor. Thus you see, through the mercy of God, I escaped these poor fellows fate. I am now with eight others in the Cutcherry of Mynpoorie; we have lots of ammunition. It is a large pukka building, and from the top we can make a good fight if no guns are brought against us. We have 100 infantry and cavalry all round, and now have about 100 each or more, besides a few men of the 9th Native Infantry who remained true to their salt, and did not desert with the rest. The Gwalior Horse, Major Raikes seems very confident in; but since the last émeute in our men I do not place trust in a single native. Deeply do I feel for my unfortunate companions who left Cawnpore with me, full of hope, and anxious to be the first to cut our way through this Etah rajah’s country, and open the road for government to Allygurh, which has now been closed some days. We were all anxious to distinguish ourselves, and every day we tried to inspire our men, who swore they would follow us; and thus with a deceitful lying, outward show of entering heartily into our views, did they lead us on, and then became the murderers of those poor men who had never injured them, and promised them all sorts of rewards if they would fight well and stick to our side like men. Thus is our dream dispelled. I, the only one left of those four it is sickening to contemplate.’
Carey finally found refuge in the fort at Agra where he performed the duty of Assistant Executive Engineer. He volunteered to do duty with the 20th Punjab Infantry, forming a portion of the flying column from Delhi to Lucknow under Colonel Greathead, C.B., 14 October 1857. He later served in the Quarter Master General’s Department and took part in the second relief of Lucknow under Sir Colin Campbell, and in the capture of Lucknow city. It was in this capacity that he was Mentioned in Despatches no fewer than 9 times for services in the field, including for the Relief of Lucknow, 18 November 1857; Cawnpore, 10 December 1857; for Suwerespore( sic), 11 December 1857; twice for the capture of Lucknow, 26 March 1858; for Roarch, 16 April 1858; for Alligunge, 23 April 1858; for Bareilly, 8 May 1858, and for Siseyah Ghat, 16 June 1859.
In 1866 he was appointed Commandant of the 36th Bengal Native Infantry before transferring as Commandant to the 8th Bengal N.I. in 1871. In February 1878, he was promoted Lieutenant-General, and the following November he was advanced to the rank of full General and retired. General Carey died at 6 Wetherby Place, South Kensington, on 23 May 1892. He is buried at Bromton Cemetery together with his wife Frances Adele, née Short, whom he married on 2 December 1879.
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Thomas Stradling served with the 1st Dragoon Guards in China during the Second Opium War, and was discharged, time expired, on 27 March 1877.
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Confirmed as a participant in the battle of Ridgeway on 2 June 1866. CANADA GENERAL SERVICE 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (Pte. J. Denem, 13th Bn.) impressed naming, extremely fine
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