Description
Approximately 70 ‘Poona’ clasps were issued to Europeans, the majority of them to members of the 65th Foot.
He was born in May 1793 and was appointed an Assistant Surgeon in the Honourable East Company’s service in Bombay in May 1814. He was subsequently actively employed on attachment to the Artillery in the Pindari War 1817-19, including the capture of Poona, Puranda and Wasuta in 1818, and the action at Rari in 1819 (Medal & clasp); this was likely with 1st Troop Bombay Horse Artillery.
Advanced to Surgeon in December 1822 and to Staff Surgeon in January 1838, Henderson latterly served as an Inspector General of Hospitals, prior to his retirement in March 1841. He died in February 1866; Roll of the Indian Medical Service 1615-1930, Volume II, by Lieutenant-Colonel D. G. Crawford (W. Thacker & Co., London, 1930).
