CO-CCCF-0019

Record Date: 
4 July 2013
Graveyard: 
Christchurch
Exact wording of epitaph: 

IN

LOVING MEMORY OF

COLONEL JOHN HENRY NEWMAN

INDIAN MEDICAL SERVICE,

DIED 30TH NOVEMBER 1913,

AGED 69.

THY WILL BE DONE.

Memorial Type: 
Cross
Grave location
County: 
Cork
Latitude: 
51.909973740002
Longitude: 
-8.7931743300091
Number of people commemorated: 
1
People commemorated: 
Title: 
Colonel
Name: 
John Henry
Surname: 
Newman
Date of death - day: 
30
Date of death - month: 
November
Date of death - year: 
1913
Age: 
69
Notes: 

The British Medical Journal (20 December 2013) contains the following Obituary:

'COLONEL JOHN HENRY NEWMAN, Bengal Medical Service, retired list, died at Coola[l]ta, Killinardrish, County Cork, on November 30th. He was born on November 9th, 1844, educated at Queen's College, Cork, took the degrees of M.B. and M.Ch. in the Queen's University of Ireland, and entered the Indian Medical Service as assistant surgeon on September 30th, 1867. He became surgeon on July 1st, 1873; surgeon-major on September 30th, 1879; brigade-surgeon-lieutenant-colonel on June 1st, 1892; and colonel on March 29th, 1895. He was granted a good-service pension on April 1st, 1900 and retired on July 14th, 1900. Most of his service was spent in political medical employment under the Indian Foreign Office. In 1879 he was appointed medical officer of the Mhairwarra Battalion, now the 44th Merwara Infantry, with which post was combined the civic surgency of Ajmir. In 1884 and 1889 he officiated as Agency Surgeon, Rajputana, and administrative medical officer of the Rajputana States, and was confirmed in that post in 1892. From July to November 1893, he acted as Inspector-General of Civil Hospitals in Bengal. On promotion to colonel he was posted in a similar capacity to the Central Provinces in March, 1895; in November 1897, was transferred to Bengal; and in April, 1898, chose to return to military duty as administrative medical officer of the Punjab Frontier Force. He served in the Abyssinian War of 1878, and in the Second Afghan War in 1878-9, taking part in the two expeditions in the Bazar Valley, and received the medals for these two campaigns.

(Source: A. Greene)