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Auction: 15003 - Orders, Decorations, Campaign Medals and Militaria
Lot: 37

India General Service 1854-95, one clasp, Umbeyla (Revd. H. Drennan H.M. 93rd. Highrs.), good very fine, rare

The Reverend Hugh Drennan, (1828-1907), born Tarbolton; educated at Linlithgow Burgh School and the University of St Andrews; licenced by the Presbytery of Linlithgow and appointed Assistant at South Leith; Ordained Priest and appointed Chaplain to the Forces in the Crimea, and embarked for the East, October 1854, where he served in the hospitals at Scutari until August 1855, and then, for the remainder of the War, with the Highland Division in the Crimea; returned to England, July 1856; appointed Chaplain to the Troops in India, September 1857; served in India throughout the Mutiny and present at the Siege of Lucknow; in Peshawar, 1862, 'when the Regiment was literally decimated by the pestilence of cholera'; and in the Umbeyla Campaign, 1863; in the words of Lieutenant-General Burroughs, Commanding Officer of the 93rd Highlanders: 'In a quiet, unobtrusive way Mr. Drennan did an immense deal of good. He did his duty fearlessly to God and man, and earned the love and respect of all in the regiment. During the visitations of cholera I witnessed his fearless devotion to duty, and although suffering himself, he never deserted his post, but was constantly by the side of the suffering and dying. I cannot speak too highly in his favour.' (The Border Magazine, April 1907 refers); returned to England, 1871; appointed Presbyterian Chaplain to the troops stationed at Shoeburyness, January 1876; retired, 1897.

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