"THE SERVICES: Death of an old officer of the Camerons," Inverness Courier, April 21, 1903, p. 4b.   "Captain Charles Edward McMurdo, whose death, the result of a gun accident at Lexington, U.S.A., on April 1, is announced, was one of the Crimean officers of the 79th Highlanders, which he joined as an ensign in November 1854. He arrived before Sevastopol in July 1855, was present at its fall, and at the assault of the Redan on September 8, and as a subaltern was two years later at the siege and capture of Lucknow. After obtaining his company in the 79th, he exchanged to the Canadian Rifle Regiment, and after its disbandment left the service in 1873. "Of the officers who served in the Crimea with the 79th Highlanders under the late Sir John Douglas," writes a correspondent, "there survive General Sir Richard Taylor, colonel of the regiment; Iieutenant-General William II. Mackesy, late Indian Staff Corps; Major-Generals George Murray Miller, C.B.; and John Edward Allen; Colonel William Gordon Cleather, late 47th Regiment; Lieutenant-Colonels A. Cockburn M'Barnet, Henry Halford Stevenson, James Herbert Frame, late of the Royal Body Guard; John Miller Macnair, late Army Pay Department; and Douglas Alleyne; and Major Henry Wotton Campbell, late Military Governor of Cork Prison."