Part 6

"The Troops composing the Garrison will be drawn up in Review Order, in a convenient position, and will salute Her Majesty's TWENTY-SECOND regiment, as it passes on its way to Fort George Barracks.

"His Excellency directs the attendance of all Military Officers at the Presidency who may not be sick, or engaged on other duty.

"The Commandant of the Garrison is requested to carry out the above order.

"BRUCE SETON, _Major_, _Town Major_."

The General Staff of the Garrison testified their admiration of the gallant conduct of the regiment, by giving a public banquet to the Officers of the corps; and the inhabitants of Bombay, including the Civil Authorities, raised a handsome subscription, to be applied to the benefit of the sufferers in the regiment, widows and orphans, by the Campaign in Scinde.

The left wing landed at Panwell on the 16th of May, and proceeded from thence to Poonah, where it arrived on the 23rd of May. The right wing and head-quarters arrived at Poonah, from Bombay, on the 1st of June.

General the Honorable Edward Finch died on the 27th of October, 1843, and the colonelcy of the regiment was conferred on Major-General Sir Charles James Napier, K.C.B.

[Sidenote: 1844]

On the 17th and 18th of October, 1844, the regiment marched from Poonah in wings to Bowree, and on the 19th the whole moved together for Field Service in the Kolapore districts, where the regiment lost two officers, and thirty non-commissioned officers and privates, by cholera.

A portion of the regiment was employed in taking the north pettah under the walls of the fort of Punalla, on the 27th of November; on the 28th, 29th, and 30th of November the regiment, under the command of Brevet Lieut.-Colonel John Poole, was employed in the investment of _Punalla_ and _Pownghur_, and on the 1st of December was at the capture of those forts, the latter of which was taken by the regiment. During these operations the TWENTY-SECOND formed part of the third brigade of the force employed under Major-General Delamotte.

On the 26th of December a wing of the regiment marched, and joined the first brigade on service in the Sawunt-Warree district; the other wing remained near Kolapore.

On the 31st of December, 1844, a wing of the regiment arrived at Susseedroog from Kolapore, and joined the first brigade of the Field Force in the Sawunt-Warree country, and was employed in investing the forts of Monuhurr and Monsentosh, and participated in all the operations for driving the enemy out of their stockades in the densely wooded country between Susseedroog and the Forts.

[Sidenote: 1845]

The regiment had several skirmishes with the enemy; on the 17th of January, 1845, part of the wing descended the Elephant rock with other troops, and took the village of Seevapore, in the Concan, close under Fort Monuhurr, where one man was killed and seven wounded. The whole of the soldiers were employed, part in the Deccan or heights above, and part in the Concan close under the forts, investing them from the 17th to the 26th of January, during which period the forts were constantly shelled by the British artillery, the enemy from the forts firing their great guns and musketry.

On the night of the 26th of January the enemy vacated the forts unperceived, and escaped through a dense jungle, leaving the forts in the possession of the Anglo-Indian army.

The wing joined the regiment at Kolapore on the 6th of February, escorting prisoners taken during the insurrection. The regiment was employed in doing duty over about six hundred prisoners until its recall to Poonah, for which place it marched on the 16th of April, and arrived on the 2nd of May, 1845.

A wing of the regiment, consisting of four hundred rank and file, under the command of Captain Souter, marched from Poonah for Bombay on the 25th of December, 1845.

[Sidenote: 1846]

The head-quarters of the regiment, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Samuel Brandram Boileau, consisting of five companies, marched from Poonah to Bombay on the 15th of August, 1846, and joined the wing of the TWENTY-SECOND at that station. The march was performed in the middle of the monsoon, in eight days, rain consequently falling nearly the whole of the way.

The regiment remained together at Bombay, having six companies at Colaba, and three at Fort George, until the 14th of November, 1846, when the head-quarters, with five of the companies which were stationed at Colaba, were ordered to Poonah, in consequence of fever of a malarious nature having attacked the men, nearly every soldier at Colaba having been admitted into hospital in less than two months; the casualties were very numerous.

[Sidenote: 1847]

[Sidenote: 1848]

The left wing, consisting of four companies, marched from Bombay on the 12th of January, 1847, and arrived at Poonah on the 21st of January. During the year 1848 the regiment continued to be stationed at Poonah.

[Sidenote: 1849]

On the 25th of January, 1849, the regiment proceeded to Bombay, and was subsequently stationed at Colaba. The left wing, consisting of four companies, embarked for Kurrachee on the 24th of January.

In June, 1849, the period to which the Record has been extended, the regiment remained at Colaba, and consisted of fifty-three serjeants, nineteen drummers, and 1042 rank and file, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Sydney John Cotton, Lieutenant-Colonel Boileau being in command of the Poonah brigade.

1849.

_Description of the Beloochee Standard captured at the Battle of_ MEEANEE, _on the 17th of February, 1843._

The Beloochee Standard, represented in the engraving, was taken at the Battle of _Meeanee_, on the 17th of February, 1843, by Private James O'Neill of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, as narrated at page 35 of the Historical Record. The Standard is triangular; the longest side is about seven feet in length, and the other sides measure each about five feet. The Staff is nine feet in length.

The Standards captured at the Battle of _Hyderabad_, on the 24th of March, 1843, were of a similar rude description, and do not afford a just idea of the Army which they may be supposed to have led on. No person, on viewing these Trophies, would suppose the Beloochee Army, to which they belonged, to have been composed of men so gallant and so formidable; so well armed, and so expert in the use of their arms, as the Scindian troops proved themselves in these battles.

_Description of the Silver Medal struck in commemoration of the Victories of_ MEEANEE _and_ HYDERABAD, _and conferred on the Officers and Men engaged in those Battles._

On the obverse; the bust of HER MAJESTY, with the inscription "VICTORIA REGINA."

On the reverse; the words "MEEANEE," "HYDERABAD," "1843," enclosed within branches of Laurel, and surmounted by the Imperial Crown.

FOOTNOTES:

[6] Cape Breton had been captured by the British in 1745, but was restored to the French at the peace of Aix-la-Chapelle in 1748. It was retaken in 1758 (as above narrated), and was finally ceded to Great Britain by the treaty of Fontainebleau, in 1763.

[7] The grenadier company of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, which had been incorporated with the "_Louisburg Grenadiers_," formed part of the armament, and was engaged in the battle on the heights of Abraham on the 13th of September, 1759.

[8] When the Marquis of Normanby (then Earl of Mulgrave) presented the regiment with New Colours at Jamaica, he remarked, in reference to the conduct of the regiment,--"I had myself the means of knowing upon the many times I have been at Falmouth, whilst your head-quarters were there, that the regiment was universally popular, and their departure generally regretted. During the few pleasant days I passed at Shuttlewood, in the camp of which the flank companies of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment formed a part, I remember upon remarking to the Major-General there commanding, the perfect good conduct of all there, he said, 'Yes, I never knew better men.'"

[9] Lieutenant Thomas Chute succeeded to the vacancy caused by the death of Captain Tew; Ensign Richard Pennefather was promoted Lieutenant; and Serjeant-Major Thomas Stack was appointed ensign in the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, the commissions being dated 18th February, 1843, the day following the battle of Meeanee.

[10] The following interesting circumstance is recorded by Major-General Napier, in his history of the conquest of Scinde, respecting the march into the desert in pursuit of Meer Shere Mahomed:--

"On one of those long marches, which were almost continual, the Twenty-fifth Sepoys, being nearly maddened by thirst and heat, saw one of their water-carriers approaching with full skins of water; they rushed towards him in crowds, tearing away the skins and struggling together, with loud cries of Water! Water! At that moment, some half-dozen straggling soldiers of the TWENTY-SECOND came up, apparently exhausted, and asked for some. At once the generous Indians withheld their hands from the skins, forgot their own sufferings, and gave the fainting Europeans to drink; then they all moved on, the Sepoys carrying the TWENTY-SECOND men's muskets for them, patting them on the shoulders, and encouraging them to hold out. It was in vain; they did so for a short time, but soon fell. It was then discovered that these noble fellows were all wounded, some deeply, but thinking there was to be another fight, they had concealed their hurts, and forced nature to sustain the loss of blood, the pain of wounds, the burning sun, the long marches, and the sandy desert, that their last moments might be given to their country on another field of battle!"

_Names of men of the_ TWENTY-SECOND _regiment who concealed their wounds, received in the Battle of Hyderabad, and marched with their regiment the next day, thinking another battle was at hand._

Serjeant Haney, John Durr, John Muldowney, Robert Young, Henry Lines, Patrick Gill, James Andrews, Thomas Middleton, James Mulvey, and Silvester Day.

[11] Lieutenant-Colonel Pennefather was appointed Aide-de-Camp to the Queen, with the rank of Colonel, in 1846, the honor having been deferred until this period in consequence of his short standing as a Lieutenant-Colonel in 1843, the year in which the victories of Meeanee and Hyderabad were gained.

Colonel Pennefather exchanged to the Twenty-eighth Regiment, with Lieut.-Colonel S. J. Cotton, on the 2nd December, 1847, and becoming supernumerary on the arrival of the Twenty-eighth regiment from India in 1848, was placed on half-pay. In August, 1848, Colonel Pennefather was appointed to serve on the Staff of the army in Ireland.

SUCCESSION OF COLONELS

OF

THE TWENTY-SECOND,

OR

THE CHESHIRE REGIMENT OF FOOT.

HENRY, DUKE OF NORFOLK, K.G.

_Appointed 16th March, 1689._

LORD HENRY HOWARD, son of Henry, Earl of Norwich, afterwards Duke of Norfolk, was summoned to parliament in 1678, by the title of Lord Mowbray: and on the death of Prince Rupert, in 1682, his lordship was nominated governor and constable of Windsor Castle, and warden of the forest of Windsor; also lord lieutenant of Berkshire and Surrey. On the decease of his father, in 1684, he succeeded to the dignity of DUKE OF NORFOLK, and of Earl Marshal of England; and in May, 1685, he was elected a Knight of the most noble order of the Garter. On the breaking out of the rebellion of the DUKE OF MONMOUTH, the DUKE OF NORFOLK took great interest in raising a regiment of foot for the service of King James II., now the twelfth regiment of foot, of which he was appointed colonel. His Grace did not approve of the measures of the court, and evinced a strong attachment to the protestant religion. One day (says Bishop Burnet) the King gave the DUKE OF NORFOLK the sword of state to carry with him to the Popish chapel, which he carried as far as the door and then stopped, not being willing to enter the chapel. The King said, "My Lord, your father would have gone farther;" to which the Duke answered,--"Your Majesty's father was the better man, and he would not have gone so far." His Grace resigned his regiment, and joined in the invitation to the PRINCE OF ORANGE. When the Prince landed, the DUKE OF NORFOLK was in London, and was one of the Peers who petitioned the King for a free parliament. He afterwards proceeded to his seat in Norfolk, declared for the Prince of Orange, and brought that and some of the neighbouring counties into the Prince's interest. On the elevation of the Prince of Orange to the throne, his Graced was sworn a member of the privy council; and afterwards used his interest and influence in raising a corps of infantry, now the TWENTY-SECOND REGIMENT, of which he was appointed colonel in March, 1689; but he resigned his commission in the same year. He died on the 2nd of April 1701.

SIR HENRY BELLASIS, KT.

_Appointed 28th September, 1689._

SIR HENRY BELLASIS was educated in strict principles of loyalty and attachment to monarchical government, and when a youth he suffered in the royal cause during the usurpation of Cromwell. Soon after the restoration he was nominated captain of an independent company in garrison at Hull, of which fortress the Lord Bellasis (or Belasyse) was appointed governor; but he resigned, in 1673, in consequence of the Test Act, he being a Roman Catholic. In the summer of 1674, Sir Henry Bellasis raised a company of musketeers and pikemen for the service of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, and was engaged at the siege of Grave in the autumn of that year. He also served at the siege of Maestricht in 1676; at the battle of Mont-Cassel in 1677; and in the following spring he succeeded Colonel Ashley in the command of a regiment which is now the sixth foot. At the battle of St. Denis, in 1678, he evinced signal valour and ability, vying in feats of gallantry with his commanders the Prince of Orange and the celebrated Earl of Ossory, and was wounded. During the rebellion of the Duke of Monmouth, in 1685, he accompanied his regiment to England; and in 1687 circumstances occurred which occasioned him to withdraw from the Dutch service; but he preserved his attachment to the Protestant interest and to the Prince of Orange. In 1689 he succeeded the Duke of Norfolk in the colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, with which corps he served in Ireland under the veteran Duke Schomberg. He served as brigadier-general under King William in 1690; was at the battle of the Boyne; and at the siege of Limerick, where he again distinguished himself. In 1691 he acquired new honours at the siege of Athlone; he also displayed bravery and judgment at the battle of Aghrim; and on the reduction of Galway he was appointed governor of that fortress, and took possession of the town on the 26th of July, with his own and two other regiments of foot. The rank of major-general was conferred on this distinguished officer in April, 1692, and he commanded a brigade under King William in Flanders, in the autumn of that year. He acquired additional reputation at the battle of Landen, in 1693; also in the command of a brigade under King William during the following campaign; and in October, 1694, his Majesty rewarded him with the rank of lieut.-general. His meritorious conduct procured him the favour and confidence of his Sovereign, by whom he was employed on important services. He commanded the camp on the Bruges canal, in May, 1695; and a division of the covering army was placed under his orders during the siege of Namur. At the close of the campaign he was appointed president of the general court-martial which tried the officers who surrendered Dixmude and Deinse to the enemy, and sentenced Major-General Ellemberg to be shot. He continued to serve in the Netherlands until the peace of Ryswick. In 1701 he obtained the colonelcy of the Queen Dowager's regiment (now second foot) in exchange with Colonel Selwyn. In 1702 he was second in command of the British troops in the expedition to Cadiz; and having been charged with participating in the plunder of Port St. Mary, he was tried by a court-martial and dismissed the service. His reputation was thus unfortunately tarnished; but his crime does not appear to have been considered of a heinous nature, as he was subsequently elected a member of parliament for the city of Durham; was appointed by Queen Anne, in 1711, one of the commissioners to inquire into several particulars respecting the accounts of the army in Spain; and in June, 1713, he was appointed governor of Berwick. He died on the 14th of December, 1717.

WILLIAM SELWYN.

_Appointed 28th June, 1701._

WILLIAM SELWYN served in the army of the United Provinces of the Netherlands, in the time of King Charles II., and afterwards held a commission under the British crown. In 1688 he was nominated captain and lieut.-colonel in the second foot guards, with which corps he served in Flanders, and in 1691 King William gave him the colonelcy of the second foot, vacant by the decease of Lieut.-General Kirke. He served at the head of his regiment at the battle of Landen on the 29th of July, 1693, and distinguished himself under the eye of his sovereign; he also served at the siege of Namur, in the summer of 1695, and was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general during the siege. He subsequently commanded a brigade of infantry in the Netherlands, under King William III., who nominated him governor of the island of Jamaica. He exchanged to the TWENTY-SECOND regiment in 1701; and was promoted to the rank of major-general on the 10th June, 1702. He died in June, 1702.

THOMAS HANDASYD.

_Appointed 20th June, 1702._

After a progressive service in the subordinate commissions, THOMAS HANDASYD was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, with which corps he proceeded to the island of Jamaica; and in June, 1702, Queen Anne promoted him to the colonelcy of the regiment. He served in the West Indies; was advanced to the rank of brigadier-general in 1705, and to that of major-general in 1710. In 1712, he resigned the colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment in favour of his non.

ROGER HANDASYD.

_Appointed 3rd April, 1712._

This Officer served many years in the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, and was promoted by Queen Anne to the lieut.-colonelcy of that corps, which he commanded some time at the island of Jamaica. He succeeded his father in the colonelcy of the regiment in 1712; was removed to the sixteenth foot in 1730,--promoted to the rank of brigadier-general in 1735,--to that of major-general in 1739,--and to lieut.-general in 1743. He died in 1763.

WILLIAM BARRELL.

_Appointed 25th August, 1730._

This officer entered the army in the reign of William III.; he obtained the rank of captain in 1698, and his distinguished conduct in the wars of Queen Anne was rewarded with the brevet rank of colonel on the 1st of January, 1707. In 1715 he was promoted to the colonelcy of the Twenty-eighth foot; in 1727 he was appointed brigadier-general; in 1730 he was removed to the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, and in 1734 to the King's Own. In the following year he was promoted to the rank of major-general; in 1739 to that of lieut.-general; and he was also appointed governor of Pendennis Castle. He died on the 9th of August, 1749.

THE HONORABLE JAMES ST. CLAIR.

_Appointed 30th October, 1734._

THE HONORABLE JAMES ST. CLAIR entered the army in the reign of Queen Anne, and served under the celebrated JOHN DUKE OF MARLBOROUGH. He was several years an officer in the third foot guards, in which corps he rose to the commission of major, with the rank of colonel, and in 1734 King George II. nominated him to the colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment, from which he was removed, in 1737, to the first, the royal regiment. In 1739 he was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general; in 1741 to that of major-general; and to that of lieut.-general in 1745, at which time he was performing the duty of quartermaster-general in the Netherlands, to the army commanded by His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland. In the following year he commanded an expedition which was originally designed for the attack of the French settlements in Canada; but was countermanded, and afterwards proceeded against the French seaport L'Orient and the peninsula of Quiberon; no important results were, however, achieved. He was subsequently employed on an embassy to the courts of Vienna and Turin.[12] On the decease of his brother, in 1750, he became entitled to the dignity of Lord Sinclair, a Scottish peerage; but he preferred a seat in the House of Commons, of which he had been many years a member, and therefore did not assume the title. In 1761 he was promoted to the rank of general. He died at Dysart, in November, 1762.

JOHN MOYLE.

_Appointed 27th June, 1737._

JOHN MOYLE entered the army in the reign of Queen Anne, and served with reputation under the celebrated John Duke of Marlborough; he rose to the lieut.-colonelcy of a newly raised regiment of foot, and in 1708 was promoted to the rank of colonel in the army. At the peace of Utrecht his regiment was disbanded. In 1723 King George I. conferred the colonelcy of the Thirty-sixth regiment on Colonel Moyle, who was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general in 1727, and to that of major-general in 1735; in 1737 he was removed to the TWENTY-SECOND regiment. He died on the 3rd of November, 1738.

THOMAS PAGET.

_Appointed 13th December, 1738._

This officer entered the army in the reign of King William III., and was many years an officer of the eighth horse, now seventh dragoon guards, with which corps he served under the celebrated John Duke of Marlborough. On the 1st of August, 1710, he was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the eighth horse; he was afterwards lieut.-colonel of the first troop of horse grenadier guards; and in July, 1732, was nominated colonel of the Thirty-second regiment, from which he was removed, in 1738, to the TWENTY-SECOND. In 1739 he was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general. He died on the 28th of May, 1741.

RICHARD O'FARRELL.

_Appointed 12th August, 1741._

RICHARD O'FARRELL was nominated ensign in a regiment of foot on the 1st of May, 1692; and he served with reputation in the wars of King William III. and of Queen Anne. On the 20th of December, 1722, he was promoted to the lieut.-colonelcy of the ninth foot, and he performed the duties of commanding officer to that corps many years, with credit to himself and advantage to the service. On the decease of Brigadier-General Paget, in 1741, King George II. rewarded the long and faithful services of Lieut.-Colonel O'Farrell with the colonelcy of the TWENTY-SECOND regiment. In 1746 Colonel O'Farrell was promoted to the rank of brigadier-general, and in 1754 to that of major-general. His decease occurred in 1757.

EDWARD WHITMORE.

_Appointed 11th July, 1757._