No 205 Surgeon Patrick Joseph Clarke LRCSI (1847)
1 Apr 1826 [Edgeworthstown Co Longford] – 8 May 1879 [Dinapore Bengal]
Surgeon Patrick Joseph Clarke entered the Army Medical Service aged 22 years. Hee served with the Royal Engineers at the destruction of the forts in Sebastopol for which he received the Crimea and Turkish medals. He also served in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny and was present at the siege of Lucknow and in the subsequent operations in Oude (medal).
Service Record
(Lt Col Foster's collection of Netley photos - courtesy AMS Museum).
17 Mar 1848 Appointed Assistant Surgeon 2nd West Indies Regiment.
17 Mar 1848–May 1848 Served in the United Kingdom.
May 1848–Sep 1848 Served in the West Indies.
Sep 1848–Mar 1849 On the West Coast of Africa.
Mar 1849–Apr 1855 Served in the West Indies. Served in medical charge of the Royal Artillery at Stony Hill, Jamaica during the prevalence of cholera in 1849.
5 Apr 1850 Promoted Staff Assistant Surgeon.
Apr 1852–Mar 1855 In medical charge of the Military Prison Barbados.
Apr 1855–Sep 1855 Served in the United Kingdom in medical charge of the General hospital Chichester.
11 May 1855 Promoted Staff Surgeon.
Sep 1855–Aug 1856 Served in the Crimea with the Royal Engineers with the rank of Staff Surgeon 2nd Class.
Aug 1856–Mar 1857 Served in the United Kingdom. Moved back to Chichester from the Crimea.
20 Oct 1856–20 Feb 1857 Reduced to half-pay as Staff Surgeon of the 2nd Class.
20 Feb 1857 Recalled to full-pay as Staff Surgeon 2nd Class.
Mar 1857–Nov 1857 Served in China.
Nov 1857–June 1862 Served in the East Indies.
30 May 1858 Promoted Surgeon by exchange with Surgeon Anthony Dickson Home 90th (Perthshire Volunteers - Light Infantry) Regiment. Served as a regimental surgeon in the suppression of the Indian Mutiny (1857–1858).
30 Apr 1861 Promoted Staff Surgeon.
Jun 1862–2 Aug 1865 Served in the United Kingdom.
Oct 1862–Sep 1864 In medical charge of the General Hospital Dublin.
13 Sep 1864 Became surgeon 84th Foot by exchange with Surgeon James McGrigor Grant 84th (York and Lancaster) Regiment of Foot.
3 Apr 1865–27 Feb 1867 Arrived from England.
During the cholera of July – November 1865, Surgeon Patrick Joseph Clarke was the principal medical officer in the garrison. On his recommendations, the Governor Lieut General Henry Storks, ordered his commanding officers to pay strict attention to cleanliness in and around their barracks, to use lime and charcoal freely and to pay strict attention to flushing and disinfection of the latrines, to air the bedding daily, to issue coffee before the breakfast meal for the working parties employed in white washing of the barrack rooms, to order the immediate wearing of cholera belts, to admit all cases of diarrhoea who had not responded to medicines, to prevent their troops from visiting infected districts around their barracks, to ban the eating of unripe fruit and to avoid all unnecessary expose to the mid-day sun.
Malta 27 Apr 1866 To England on leave.
4 Sep 1866 Returned from leave.
Malta 27 Feb 1867 Left for Jamaica.
28 Feb 1867–31 Dec 1869 Served in Jamaica where he was specially mentioned for his services during the prevalence of Yellow fever at Newcastle.
19 July 1868 Promoted Surgeon-Major 84th Foot.
1 Jan 1870–11 Jan 1871 Served in Halifax Nova Scotia.
12 January 1871 Served in the United Kingdom.
7 February 1871 Married in Dublin Mary Elizabeth Tobin.
July 1873–1876 Succeeded Surgeon Major Daniel John Doherty on transfer from the 84th Foot as a Staff Surgeon Major. On duty in Dublin.
1877–1879 In Bengal.
8 May 1876 Died at Dinapore Bengal.
Bibliography
- Drew R., 1968. Entry No: 4963. Medical Officers in the British Army 1660 – 1960. Volume 1: 1660 – 1898. London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library.
- RAMC/PE/3/27/Drew. Manuscript for Drew's Roll.
- Succession Book Vol 5 (1 May 1846). Returns of service of medical officers in the Regular Army.
- TNA:WO 76/345/67 Record of service of medical officers 1848–1868.
- TNA:WO 76/347/139 Record of service of medical officers 1848–1868.