Page:Notes and Queries - Series 12 - Volume 3.djvu/444

 438

NOTES AND QUERIES. [12 s. in. OCT., 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, 408.)

THE second Marine Regiment (45th Foot), raised on Nov. 18, 1739, had green facings to its uniform dress. It was " broke " on Nov. 9, 1748, the officers being placed on half- pay.

The officers whose names appear in the Army List of 1755 (p. 88) as having belonged to this regiment number only three Gibson, Eagan, and Foy.

Col. Robinson was succeeded on June 14, 1741, by Col. Robert Frazer, whose first commission was dated Oct. 24, 1708.

Dates of their first commissions.

Ensign, 1707.

Ensign, 13 May 1719. Ensign, 24 Mar. 1704-5. (2)

From Half Pay. From Half Pay. From Half Pay. Ensign, 1715.

Ensign, 9 May 1723. (4) Ensign, 9 Mar. 1731-2.

Colonel

Lieutenant Colonel Major

Captains

Captain Lieutenant

First Lieutenants

Colonel Robinson's Regiment of Marines.

William Robinson Francis Thompson (1) Benjamin Gregg

'Leonard Gwyn (3) Francis Noiray John Austin John Gascoign Bofceler Hutchinson. . Robert Ellison George Gibson

William Ouchterlony

William Beaufort (5). . Lancelot Dawes Richard Eagan (6) Robert Foy (7) Daniel Virasel (8) William Lockart William Jenkins Thomas Apperley Francis Bridgeman ^Sir Patrick Murray (9)

/"John Lade John Marriot George Peachell Peter Saltmarsh (10) James Molesworth (11) Francis Ogilbie (12) . . James Robertson (13). . Alexander Dunlop (14) Adam Drummond ' ; . ' Fox Hickman Samuel Munro James Dunbarr William Fielding Peter Bruce Robert Ewer William Blackett (15) David Patton (16) Thomas Moyle (17)

^Maysmore Morris

(1) Killed at Carthagena, South America, 1741.

(2) In Godfrey's Regiment (16th Foot). Cap- tain in the Royal Irish Regiment, April 4, 1712. Half-pay, 1713.

(3) Captain in Montague's Regiment (llth Foot), Feb. 8, 1722. Died 1747.

(4) In Cotton's Regiment (13th Foot).

(5) Captain, March 24, 1741.

(6) Captain, May 10, 1741.

(7) Captain, April 9, 1741.

(8) Captain-Lieutenant, April 9, 1741.

1739

Ensign, 23 Aug. 1722. From Half Pay.

From Half Pay. From Half Pay. Ensign, 14 Mar. 1733-4. Ensign, 23 Aug. 1735. Ensign, 11 Aug. 1737. Ensign, 17 July 1739.

Second Lieutenants

Dates of their {present commissions. . . 18 Nov. 1739 .. 25 ditto

3 Dec. 1739

. . 18 Nov. 1739 .. 23 ditto .. 26 ditto .. 28 ditto 2 Dec.

5 ditto 8 ditto

. . 18 Nov. 1739

.. 18 ditto.

.. 25 ditto

.. 28 ditto

. . 30 ditto

2 Dec. 1739

4 ditto

6 ditto 8 ditto.

.. 10 ditto. .. 12 ditto.

.. 23 Nov. 1739. .. 24 ditto. .. 25 ditto. .. 26 ditto. .. 27 ditto. .. 28 ditto. .. 29 ditto. .. 30 ditto.

1 Dec. 1739. .. 26 Jan. 1739-40. .. 27 ditto. .. 28 ditto. . . 29 ditto. . . 30 ditto. .. 31 ditto.

1 Feb. 1739-40.

2 ditto.

3 ditto.

4 ditto.

(9) Possibly of Ochtertyre, co. Perth, 4th Baronet.

(10) First Lieutenant, May 10, 1741.

(11) First Lieutenant, Dec. 22, 1740.

(12) Ogilvie. First Lieutenant, March 24, 1741.

(13) First Lieutenant, April 9, 1741.

(14) First Lieutenant, Dec. 20, 1740.

(15) First Lieutenant, May 11, 1741.

(16) First Lieutenant, May 12, 1741.

(17) First Lieutenant, May 15, 1741.