 The daylight hours of 28 July saw continuous fire from the Pashtun sharpshooters established in the hills surrounding Malakand South . The garrison surgeon , Lieutenant J.H. Hugo , treated a number of British casualties including an officer from the Guides . Despite further attacks during the night of July 28 / 29 , the British recorded only two killed from the sepoy ranks , and the severe wounding of a Lieutenant Ford . Churchill records that Ford 's bleeding artery was clamped shut by Hugo despite being under fire . 
