Thomas Alexander (military surgeon)

He returned to the United Kingdom to be in charge of invalids but after nine months he was sent to the Nova Scotia where he remained until August 1846 to take up the post of Regimental-Assistant-Surgeon to the Rifle Brigade.

[2] Alexander achieved the rank of First Class Staff Surgeon in 1854 and was ordered to join an expedition to Turkey where he was in charge of the medical officers of the Light Division under Sir George Brown, landing at Gallipoli on 6 March as part of the first detachment of the expeditionary force, comprising his former comrades in the Rifle Brigade and a detachment of Royal Engineers, Sappers and Miners.

He remained at his post throughout the winter of 1851-52 and it was noted that throughout this service with the Light Division in the Crimea, he did not have a single day where he was absent from duty.

In January 1855 he was appointed Deputy-Inspector-General, and was principal medical officer of the expeditionary force under Sir George Brown that attacked Kerch.

However, he was there for only six months before Lord Panmure nominated him to be a Royal Commissioner on the inquiry into the sanitary state of the army, and he returned to the United Kingdom to fulfil this role.