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THE CELTIC MONTHLY.
SURGEON-GENERAL MUNRO, C.B.,
M.D., LL.D., LONDON.
i^lURGEONGENEEAL MUNEO is the
^^ son of the late William Munro, Inspec-
'W-f' tor-General of Hospitals, and was born
in 1823, took his degree at Glasgow, and
L.R.GS. in Edinburgh, in 1844, and was made
Hon. LL.D. of Glasgow University in 1888.
He entered the Medical Department of
H.M. Army in
1844, became
Surgeon in
18 5 4, and
going through
the regular
steps of pro-
motion, be-
came Surgeon-
General in
1876. He
served in the
Kaffii- War of
1846-7, in the
Crimean Cam-
paign 1854-5,
also in the
Indian Mutiny
Campaign
of 1857-8,
and with the
Euzufzai Field
Force 1863:
was mentioned
in despatches
and thanked
by the Gover-
nor-General in
Council, and
created Com-
panion of the
Bath in 1865
— making a
total service of
thirty -six years
— twenty-five
of which were
passed on For-
eign Service and five years on War Service, hav-
ing been present at fifteen Battles and Engage-
ments, and at the Sieges of Sebastopol and Luck-
now. For these services Surgeon-General Munro
has received the following decorations: — The
Companionship of the Order of the Bath, and
the fifth class of the Turkish Order of the
Medjidie; the medal for South Africa, the
medal and three clasps for the Crimea, with
the Turkish War medal ; the medal and two
clasps for the Indian Mutiny, and the medal
and clasp for the Euzufzai Campaign, India,
in 1863. And not long before his retirement
he received the reward of £100 a year for
distinguished military service.
These are the bare outlines (but they speak
for themselves) of a long and varied public
career, and of a life of great usefulness to his
fellow men : and, although many of these have
passed away, many still remain who can and
do testify to the value of the services rendered
to them in days gone by, by their old surgeon,
comrade, and
friend. And
he who has
been brought
through these
stirring times,
and lived this
life of action,
now walks in
and out in our
midst, modest-
ly and calmly,
as if war and
pestilence,
labour and
hardship were
things wholly
unknown to
him. In Sur-
geon-General
Munro's ' Re-
cnnls (,f Seirice
ami Ciiiniiiiiijn-
III 1 1 ill Many
Lands,' dedica-
ted by per-
mission to
H. R. H. the
Princess Lou-
ise, Marchion-
ess of Lome,
he tells us that
his eyes are
now turned
" towards the
sunset," but
the outward
man does not
bear, as one would expect, the marks of the
hard life that has been gone through, and his
life has its pleasures still, and its usefulness in
quiet paths, brightened by many happy
memories, and blessed with the consciousness
of duty done and rest earned. Smce his retire-
ment from the Service in 1881, Surgeon-General
Munro has become known to many as the author
of 'Reminiscences of Military Service with the 03rd
Sutherland Highlanders,' and of 'Records of
Service and Campaigning in Many Lands'