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NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. m. SKPT., 1917.

AN ENGLISH ARMY LIST OF 1740.

(See 12 S. ii. 3, 43, 84, 122, 163, 204, 243, 282, 324, 364, 402, 443, 482, 524 ;

iii. 46, 103, 267, 354.)

THE next six regiments (pp. 49 to 54) are regiments of Marines, which were raised on Nov. 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, and 22, 1739, respectively.

They were numbered 44 to 49, and were all disbanded in 1748.

The formation of these regiments was the outcome of the declaration of war by Great Britain against Spain in October, 1739. The following extract from Cannon's ' Historical Record of the Marine Corps ' (pp. 21-2) explains how the regiments were raised* :

" It was again considered necessary to form an efficient maritime force in distinct regiments, by which means the corps of the regular. army could be embarked when required for Continental service, and the marine regiments could be employed, either on board of ships of war, or at the naval stations, as might be considered best for the public service.

" Orders were issued for augmenting the land-forces, and also for forming six regiments of marines, each to consist of ten companies of seventy privates in each company, and to be commanded by 1st, Colonel Edward Wolfe, from 3rd Foot Guards ; 2nd, Colonel W. Robinson, from Handasyd's 22nd Regiment ; 3rd, Colonel Andrew Lowther, from 2nd Foot Guards ; 4th, Colonel John Wynyard, from Tyrrell's Regiment ; 5th, Colonel Charles Douglas, from Howard's Regiment ; 6th, Colonel Lucius Ducie Moreton, from 3rd Foot Guards.

" In order to facilitate the speedy formation of these corps, and to render them effective, five men from each company of the regiments of Foot Guards were appointed Serjeants and corporals ; and further, that they might be rapidly completed, a bounty of thirty shillings per man was allowed to 1,800 men who volunteered from the regiments of infantry to the marine corps : by these energies, the whole of the marine regiments were soon raised and disciplined."

The 1st Marine Regiment had deep yellow facings to its uniform dress. It was " broke " we should now say " disbanded " on Nov. 11, 1748, the officers being placed on half-pay.

Of the officers whose names appear in the Army List of 1755 (p. 88) as having belonged to tnis legiment, one only of the original officers Capt. James Carr remains.

Col. Wolfe was appointed to the colonelcy of the King's Regiment of Foot in 1745. He was succeeded bv Col. G. Keightley, who was succeeded in the same year by Col. G. Churchill :

Colonel Wolfe's Regiment of Marines.

Colonel

Lieutenant Colonel Major

Captains

Edward Wolfe (1) John Cotterell (2) Humphrey Watson (3) f Thomas Keene Henry Dawson I John Harris (4) A John Maclean. . ' Philip Howard (5) I William Burrard V Thomas Baldwin

Dates of their present commissions. . . 17 Nov. 1739 .. 22 ditto .. 30 ditto

17 Nov. 1739 23 ditto 25 ditto 28 ditto 2 Dec. 1739 4 ditto 7 ditto

Dates of their first

commissions.

Lieutenant, 10 Mar. 1701-2. Ensign, 4 July 1716. From Half Pay. From Half Pay. Lieutenant, 23 Dec. 1709. Lieutenant, 13 April 1719. Ensign, 24 April 1725. Ensign, 24 May 1723. Ensign, 15 June 1732. Ensign, 17 Nov. 1721.

(1) " Son of Capt. Edward Wolfe of Blood's Regiment of Foot, and father of the immortal Major-General James Wolfe. Appointed Second Lieutenant in Viscount Shannon's Regiment of Marines, March 10, 1702. Major of Col. Wm. Newton's (late Temple's) Regiment of Foot, April 24, 1710. Served in Flanders. Half-pay, 1713. Major of Dubourgay's Regiment of Foot, July 22, 1715. Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel 3rd Foot Guards, July 10, 1717. Colonel of the 1st Marine Regiment, Nov. 17, 1739. Served as Adjutant-General to the expedition to Carthagena, 1740-41. Brigadier- General, Feb. 25, 1744. Major-General, May 27, 1745. Inspector of Marines. Transferred to the Colonelcy of the King's Regiment of Foot, April 25, 1745. Lieutenant-General, Sept. 27, 1747. Died March 27, 1759. Buried at Greenwich." C. Dalton's ' George the First's Army, 1714-27,' 1910, vol. i. p. 168.

(2) Had previously served in the 6th Regiment. Major, July 6, 1726. Son of Sir Charles Cotterell, Kt.

(3) Killed in action before Carthagena, South America, 1741.

(4) Killed in action before Carthagena, 1741.

(5) Died before Carthagena, 1741.

Army List of 1740. These, too, were disbanded in 1748, at the same time as the other six.
 * Four more regiments (50th to 53rd) were raised in 1740, but are not, of course, included in this