article_snippet: As the only woman serving alongside the Bengal Fusiliers in Peshawar, Elizabeth Webber Harris saved more lives with Elizabeth Webber Harris ‘tender consolations’ than a surgeon did with a surgeon medicines.
article_snippet: Mrs Harris (gravestone pictured) spent three months nursing soldiers with cholera and keeping up an Army regiment's spirits .
article_snippet: One night Mrs Harris (gravestone pictured) was attacked by two tribesmen who seized Mrs Harris (gravestone pictured) horse in an incident Mrs Harris (gravestone pictured) described as ‘alarming’.
article_snippet: When the regiment finally returned to Peshawar, Mrs Harris (gravestone pictured) said: ‘I was treated as a heroine’.
article_snippet: At a regimental dinner in 1869, one member of the 104th said: ‘The Surgeon of the regiment declared that by Mrs Harris (gravestone pictured) energies and tender consolations, Mrs Harris (gravestone pictured) had been the instrument of preserving more lives than The Surgeon of the Regiment had been able to save with The Surgeon of the Regiment medicines.
article_snippet: Mrs Harris (gravestone pictured) husband added: ‘None of those who were with the regiment during that awful cholera season in 1869 will ever forget Mrs Harris (gravestone pictured) devotion to the sick.
article_snippet: In June 1921 a magazine article said: ‘Throughout their trying time in the isolation camp Mrs Harris (gravestone pictured) remained with the regiment and the regiment was largely owing to Mrs Harris (gravestone pictured) indefatigable exertions that the losses of the regiment were not infinitely heavier than the losses of the regiment were.
article_snippet: The 104th officers felt Mrs Harris (gravestone pictured) had lived up to the traditions of the Victoria Cross and in 1869 Mrs Harris (gravestone pictured) was awarded with the honorary medal.
article_snippet: A letter to the Times stated: ‘A letter to the Times is said that it was suggested to Queen Victoria that Mrs Harris (gravestone pictured) might be given the Victoria Cross, but this was, of course, not possible, so the gold replica was made and presented to Mrs Harris (gravestone pictured) instead.’ Mrs Harris (gravestone pictured)
article_snippet: Mrs Harris (gravestone pictured) died in London in 1917.