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第五明火枪团当助理军医。这个团当时驻扎在印度，在我赶到部队之

前，第二次阿富汗战争就爆发了。我在孟买上岸时，就听说我所属的
那个团已经向前挺进穿过山隘，深入敌国了。不管怎样，我还是同许

多其他和我一样处境的军官一起过去了，我们平安抵达了坎达哈尔，
在那里找到了我所属的团，并马上担负起新职责。

The campaign brought honours and promotion to many,
but for me it had nothing but misfortune and disaster. I was
removed from my brigade and attached to the Berkshires,
with whom I served at the fatal battle of Maiwand. There I

was struck on the shoulder by a Jezail bullet, which
shattered the bone and grazed the subclavian artery. I
should have fallen into the hands of the murderous Ghazis
had it not been for the devotion and courage shown by

Murray, my orderly, who threw me across a pack-horse, and
succeeded in bringing me safely to the British lines.

这场战役为很多人争得了荣耀和升迁，但带给我的却只有不幸和

灾难。我从我所属的旅被调到伯克郡旅，和他们一起参加了迈旺德那
场生死攸关的战役。一颗阿富汗长滑膛枪子弹击中了我的肩部，打碎

了肩骨，并擦伤了锁骨下的动脉。如果不是我的勤务兵默里表现忠
勇，将我扔到一匹驮马上，成功地把我安全带回英军阵地来，我就要

落入残忍的加兹人手中了。

Worn with pain, and weak from the prolonged hardships
which I had undergone, I was removed, with a great train of

wounded sufferers, to the base hospital at Peshawar. Here I
rallied, and had already improved so far as to be able to
walk about the wards, and even to bask a little upon the

veranda, when I was struck down by enteric fever, that
curse of our Indian possessions. For months my life was
despaired of, and when at last I came to myself and became
convalescent, I was so weak and emaciated that a medical
board determined that not a day should be lost in sending

me back to England. I was dispatched, accordingly, in the
troopship Orontes, and landed a month later on Portsmouth