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Brigadier Cornwallis's Regiment of Foot (continued).

Charles Laurence Thomas Hall John Elde

Nathaniel Hackshaw. .

Ensigns. . -{ Fleetwood Hawthorne (8) Samuel Howe Charles Montague John Lockett John Capell

Dates of their present commissions.

26 Dec. 1726

15 May 1729. 10 May 1732

5 June 1733. 17 Mar. 1735-6. 5 Mar. 1738-9.

16 July 1739.

12 Jan. 1739-40. 4 Feb. 1739-40.

Dates of their first

commissions. Ensign, 26 Dec. 1720.

Ensign, 8 Jan. 1731-2,

(8) Properly Rawstorne. Fourth soft of William Rawstorne, of Newhall, Lanes. Roucoux, near Liege, Sept. 30, 1746.

Killed at

The regiment next following (p. 25) was raised in 1685, as the Duke of Norfolk's Regiment of Foot. Later it was styled the 12th (East Suffolk) Regiment, and is now the Suffolk Regiment :

Dates of their ^General Whetham's Regmient of Foot. present commissions.

General. . . . Thomas Wetham, Colonel (1) 22 Mar. 1724-5. Lieutenant Colonel Scipio Duroure (2) Major. . . . William Whitmore (3)

Dates of their first commissions.

Captains

Lieutenants

f Edward Phillips (4). .

John Copley (5) I Charles Rainsford (6) I George Stanhope I Mathew Wright I Edmond Harris

Captain Lieutenant Sampson Archer

' William Watson Martin Emmenes Basil Cockraine Joseph Phillips Henry Powell Stan. Nevinson (7) Maurice Gouldston James Campbell Richard Field Charles Scott

Edmund Strudwick. . John Romer James Stevens John Carter

Ensigns. . -( John Whetham

Jesse Shaftoe John Salt George Williams j John Laborde. .

(1) Was Colonel of the 27th Foot from 1702 io 1725. Died in 1741, then being a General. See Cli:<rlns Dalton's ' George the First's Army, 1714r27,' vol. i. p. 164.

(2) Became Colonel of the regiment on Aug. 12, 1741. Mortally wounde^ at Fontenoy, 1745.

(3) Lieutenant-Colonel of the regiment, March 30, 1742. Killed at Fontenoy, 1745. (I) Killed at Dettingen, June 27, 1743.

(5) Misprint for Cossley. Lieutenant-Governor of Chelsea Hospital [from 1748 until {his death 1765.

(6) Appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the Tower of London in 1750, holding the appointment until Feb. 6, 1778, when he died. Buried in the Church of St. Peter ad Vincula, in the Tower, i

(7) Christian name Stanwix.

"25 Aug. 1734

Ensign, Dec. 1705.

3 Sept. 1739

Ensign, 15 Nov. 1715.

11 Jan. 1721-2

Lieutenant, 2 Oct. 1712.

29 Nov. 1723

Ensign, 11 June 1706.

2 Oct. 1731

Lieutenant, 24 May 1705.

5 Jan. 1738-9

Ensign, 22 May 1733.

9 July 1739

Ensign, 5 Mar. 1707-8.

7 Nov. 1739

Ensign, 1706.

7 Nov. 1739

Ensign, 1704.

7 April 1726

Ensign, 26 Mar. 1710.

18 Feb. 1728-9

Ensign, 6 Dec. 1706.

25 Dec. 1726.

9 Dec. 1730

Ensign, 8 May 1723.

26 Aug. 1731

Ensign, 15 June 1710.

9 April 1733

Ensign, 4 Feb. 1722-3.

19 Jan. 1735-6

Ensign, 12 April 1723.

7 Feb. 1738-9

Ensign, 17 Jan. 1723-4.

9 July 1739

Ensign, 26 Aug. 1731.

7 Nov. 1739

Ensign, 10 Mar. 1731-2.

3 Nov. 1733.

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11 Aug. 1737.

17 July 1739.

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28 Aug. 1739.

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