| Honorific Prefix: | Sir |
| Anthony Dickson Home | |
| Birth Date: | 30 November 1826 |
| Death Date: | 10 August 1914 (aged 87) |
| Birth Place: | Dunbar, East Lothian |
| Death Place: | Kensington, London |
| Placeofburial: | Highgate Cemetery, London |
| Placeofburial Label: | Buried |
| Allegiance: |  United Kingdom |
| Serviceyears: | 1848–1886 |
| Branch: | British Army |
| Branch Label: | Branch |
| Unit: | 3rd West India Regiment 13th Hussars 90th Regiment of Foot 35th Regiment of Foot 8th Hussars |
| Battles: | Crimean War Indian Mutiny Second Anglo-Chinese War New Zealand Wars Third Anglo-Ashanti War |
| Awards: | Victoria Cross Knight Commander of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath New Zealand War Medal Crimea Medal with Balaclava and Sebastopol clasps Indian Mutiny Medal with Lucknow and Defence of Lucknow clasps Second China War Medal with Taku Forts 1860 and Pekin 1860 clasps Africa General Service Medal, 1902 Turkish Crimea Medal |
Surgeon General Sir Anthony Dickson Home (30 November 1826 - 10 August 1914) was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Home graduated from the University of St Andrews School of Medicine with an MD in 1848. Home was 30 years old, and a surgeon in the 90th Foot, British Army during the Indian Mutiny on 26 September 1857 at the Relief of Lucknow, India, when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the VC:
See also: William Bradshaw (VC).
In the early 1860s, Home was stationed in New Zealand and fought in the New Zealand Wars.[1] [2] He was awarded a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath and achieved the rank of surgeon general.
Arthur Conan Doyle worked with him a few times and stated that, "..he seemed a most disagreeable old man...and yet when I married shortly afterwards he sent me a most charming message wishing me good fortune..."[3]
Home died on 10 August 1914 and was buried on the western side of Highgate Cemetery.
His Victoria Cross is displayed at the Army Medical Services Museum, Mytchett, Surrey.
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