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NAVAL AND MILITARY GAZETTE. Military Memoranda

... retired with the rank of Commissary-General on the 15th May, 1859- Captain Warden Hatton Flood, formerly of the 13th and 51st Light Infantry, died on Sunday, the Bth inst., at Torquay. The deceased officer served with distinction in the campaigns of Burmah ...

Military Memoranda

... present in an engagement with the French in 1809. He was gazetted to an ensigncy in December, 1812, and joining the 51st Light Infantry shortly after the battle of Vittoria, took part in our advance through the south of France, including the passage of ...

Lieutenant-General George Wentworth Alexander Higginson, C. 8., lately commanding the Home District, who has ..

... 1853, of the stronghold of the Burmese Chief Dyatton (medal with clasp for Pegu). The gallant officer served with the 51st Light Infantry throughout the Afghan War of 1878-80, during the latter part of the campaign in command of the regiment, and was present ...

January 19, 1881. The Rebellion in the Transvaal. A telegram from Durban, dated the 13th inst., states that Sir ..

... honours. the list of special service officers already given by us must be added the name of Brevet Major A. S. Wynne, 51st Light Infantry. Major Wynne, who came home recently from Afghanistan, goes out to take charge of the hcliographic signalling at the ...

Heliography

... Heliography. Major A. S. Wynne, 51st Light Infantry, read a paper on “Heliograpby and Army Signalling generally,” at the United Service Institution, on Monday, 15th March. He stated that his expetierce of the heliograph had been mainly acquired in a practical ...

NAVAL AND MILITARY GAZETTE

... Lieutenant Dick succeeding to the company. 105TH Foot. —Lieutenant Baskcrville, just promoted into the regiment from the 51st Light Infantry, is on his way home from India to join headquarters. 1061 it Foot. —Captain Pearson has resumed regimental duty from ...

Afghanistan

... to correct some errors under which some men at home are labouring. Jdlalabad, 2yJ March, —Lieutenant Thurlow, of the 51st Light Infantry, has been shot dead by a band of marauders, supposed to be Marchti Kheyls. Lieutenant Read, who was with him, escaped ...

NAVAL aND MILITARY GAZETTE

... duty as a transport officer with Sir Robert Bright’s Division on the Khyber line —medal. 51st Foot—Colonel Charles Acton, C. 8., was present with the 51st Light Infantry at the capture of Ali Musjid on the 21st November, 1878. Served with the regiment in ...

NAVAL AND MILITARY GAZETTE

... as Inspecting Officer of Auxiliary Cavalry in place of Coload Wilkinson. Colonel S. A. Madden, C. 8., half-pay, late 51st Light Infantry, succeeds Colond Robertson Ross in command of the Perth Brigade Depot Captain M. S. Bell, V.C., who has been attached ...

The Afghan War Decorations.—No 17. THE Loyal North Lancashire Regiment.—Colonel Robert Bruce Chichester, C. 8., ..

... (medal). Commissariat and Transport Staff. —Staff-Paymaster (Major) Edward Roberts served as paymaster of the late 51st Light Infantry at the capture of Fort AH Musjid, and in Northern Afghanistan in 1879 (medal with clasp). He was transferred to the ...

NAVAL AND MILITARY GAZETTE

... Baskerville are d pasaage home from India in the Juttma, to join headquarters on promotion from the 39th Foot and 51st Light Infantry. todTK Foot.—Lieutenant Norton is named for the vacant appointment of musketry-instructor.—About twenty men, commanded ...