Qualified at the Highland and Agricultural Veterinary Department of Edinburgh University in 1850.
Veterinary Surgeon in the 13th Light Dragoons: 12th of May 1854.
Letter sent to Colonel Shute, A.A.G. Cavalry Division:
"The Barracks,
Galata,
April 5th. 1856.
Sir, I have the honour to inform you for the information of Brig. General Lawrenson, that in the absence of Col ----- [illegible] I opened your letter addressed to the Commanding Officer on service and having met with Vet, Surgeon Towers , 13th Lt. Dragoons, agreeably to instructions received in your letter. I placed him under close arrest and sent him over to Scutari to his regiment in the charge of Lieut. Bond, 12th Lancers.
I have the honour to be Sir, etc. etc.,
T. Oakes,
Captain, 12th Lancers.
To Major Jennings, CB. Brigade Major."
"Hareem Barracks,
April 6th/56
Sir, I have the honour to report for the information of the Brigadier General, that Mr. Towers, was brought back yesterday evening by Lieut, Bond of the 12th Lancers. I have further to state that Dr. Armstong has this morning examined him and reports to me that he is labouring under several delusions.
I have the honour, etc. etc.,
Henry Holden, Major, 13th Lt. Drgns."
To Major Jenyns, CB. Brigade Major."
Sent to England on a "Sick Certificate" on the 15th of April 1856 and was "On leave" until the 15th of September 1856.
Died of "consumption," at Hulme Barracks, Manchester, on the 26th of April 1862.
A single man, all his effects were sent to his brother, John Thomas Towers, of 17, Rutland Square, Dublin.
Campaign Service.
Veterinary Surgeon Towers served the Eastern campaign of 1854-55 including the affair of the Bulganak, the battles of the Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman, the Tchernya, and the Siege and fall of Sebastopol. He was also present with the Light Cavalry Brigade at Eupatoria, where he was in charge of the horses of the Land Transport Corps. (Medal and four Clasps and the Turkish Medal.)
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman, and Sebastopol and the Turkish Medal.
Thomas Howard Goad refers to him in one of his letters:
"Quite a wild Pat, without a stitch of uniform of any sort, and with a monstrous brogue. He possessed an unbounding confidence in his own abilities as a whist-player - at which game he is singularly deficient in anything but luck."