Dr Duigan attending the wounded at the hospital in Sebastopol, 1855 (c)

Watercolour and pencil by Edward Angelo Goodall (1819-1908) published in 'The Illustrated London News', 6 October 1855.

As a Naval Assistant-Surgeon, David Duigan was amongst a group of medical officers in the bombardment of Bomarsund commended to the Commander-in-Chief as having 'evinced the greatest willingness and promptitude in the execution of the work of their duties'. Promoted surgeon in 1854, Duigan's reports record the close co-operation which existed between Army and Navy medical officers in the field. Upon the fall of Sebastopol, Dr Duigan was one of the doctors who attended some of the patients in the Russian hospital in the long-besieged town.