Captain Burnaby's Appeal for Subscriptions

Description:A further appeal was made for subscriptions in the Pall Mall on May 1st 1877. This appeal includes a statement by Captain Burnaby perhaps used to evoke sympathy from the reader in order to encourage further donations. The appeal states that ‘the Turkish dominions having now been invaded, and hostilities having actually commenced, the suffering amongst the Turkish soldiers is greatly increased’.

Captain Burnaby describes men marching barefoot ‘wading through deep snow’. His account states that ‘a supply of warm stockings and flannel shirts and blankets would save thousands of lives’.

The appeal uses Burnaby’s position of military authority to the scheme’s advantage, concluding ‘if people in this country could only realise to themselves the sufferings which the wounded will undergo when being operated upon without chloroform and with worn out surgical instruments I think they would willingly subscribe to the Stafford House Fund.’