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109 fVar Services of Retired Colonels.
3 Colonel Arney commanded three companies of the 58th during the operations against the
hostile natives in the Southern District of IVew Zealand in 1846. He commanded the troops
encamped in the valley of the Hutt and Porirua; and the 58th at the affair of the Horokeivi,
when the enemy were driven back and dispersed.
6 Colonel Barlow served in India under Lord Lake, during the campaigns of 1803, 4, and 5,
and was present at the siege of Deig, battle of Futtyghur, siege of Bhurtpore, and battle of
Afzalghur. Served also at the captures of Bourbon and the Isle of France in 1810.
7 Colonel Bizalgette sailed with the expedition from India to Egypt, under Sir David
Baird, in 1801. Returned to India, and served two campaigns in the Dooab and Ceded Districts,
under General Campbell. Served also on the expedition to the Penobscot, in the United States
of North America. He has received the Silver War Medal with one Clasp for Egypt.
8 Colonel liegbie served in the Peninsula with the 82nd Regt. from Aug. 1808 to Nov. 1809, in¬
cluding the capture of Oporto and battle of Talavera (War Medal with one Clasp).
9 Colonel Blake served with the 20th Dragoons at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope in
1806 ; proceeded from the nee to South America, and was in the action at Maldonado and siege
of Monte Video. Served in Portugal in 1808 and 9, including the battles of Roleia and
Vimiera (Gold Medal); also at the passage of the Douro. In Sicily in 1810 and 11; subse¬
quently on the eastern coast of Spain, including the battle of Castalla, and action at Villafranca.
10 Colonel Boldero served with the Grenadier Guards at Cadiz in 1810 and 11; in the
Peninsula in 1812 and 13; in Holland in 1814; and the campaign of 1815, in which he served
as Adjutant at the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo, and at the taking of Peronne. He has
received the War Medal with one Clasp for Barrosa.
11 Colonel Bunbury served with the expedition through the Kohat Pass in 1850, as
Aide de Camp to Sir Charles Napier. Served also the Eastern campaign of 1854-55, including
the battle of Inkerman and siege of Sebastopol (Medal and Clasps, CB., Knight of the Legion
of Honor, 5tli Class of the Mcdjidie, and Turkish Medal).
12 Colonel Bragge served in the Peninsula with the 3rd Dragoons from 1811 to the
end of that war in 1814, and was present in the battles of Salamanca and Vittoria, for which he
has received the War Medal with two Clasps.
13 Colonel Bridge served with the 58th throughout the whole of the operations in the North
of New Zealand from April 1845 to Jan. 1847. Ho commanded the Regiment in the action at
]\Iawie ; planned and conducted a night-attack in boats up the Waikari River against a rebel tribe,
which he routed, and destroyed their Pah (tVianked by the Governor and Council). Again com¬
manded the Regt. on the second expedition against the rebel chiefs Heki and Kawiti: recaptured
a hill at the head of the Regiment on the morningof the 1st July 1845 at Ohaiawhi, and led one
of the storming parties at the assault on the Pah on tliat afternoon, and was at the capture of the
Pah at Ohaiawai on the 11th July, and also at the assault and capture of Kawiti's Pah at Rua-
pekapeka on the 11th Jan. 1840 (several times named in Dispatches, &c.).
14 Colonel Brooke served in the Peninsula with the 1st Guards, and was present at the
battles of Corunna, Nivelle, and Nive, for which he has the War Medal with three Clasps.
15 Colonel Fielding Browne accompanied the 40th Regt. to the Peninsula in July 1808, and was
present at the battles of Eoleia, Vimiera, Talavera, and Busaco; on the retreat to, and at the
occupation of, the Lines of Torres Vedras, siege of Badajoz, in May 1811, and repulse of the
sortie from Fort San Christoval ; actions of El Bodon and Aldea de Ponte, siege and storming
of Ciudad Kodrigo, siege and storming of Badajoz, action at Canizal, battle of Salamanca, cap¬
ture of Madrid, and subsequent retreat therefrom. Served also on the expedition against New
Orleans. Commanded the Regiment at the battle of Waterloo. He has received the Gold
Medal for Badajoz (having commanded the Regiment at the assault) ; and the Silver War Medal
with seven Clasps for the other battles and siege.
16 Colonel Gore Browne conimandcd the 41st during the whole of the campaign of 1842 in
AfFghanistan, and was present in tlie engagements with the enemy on 28tli March and 28th
April in the Pisheen Valley; in that of the 29th May near Candahar, 30th Aug. at Goaine, 6th
»cpt. before Ghuznee, occupation and destruction of that fortress and of Cabool, expedition
into Kohistan, storm, captuic, and destruction of IstaJifF, and in the various minor affairs in and
between the Bolan and the Khyljer Passes.
17 Colonel Bunowes served with the 12th at the capture of the Isle of France, in 1810,
and commanded a detachment of that Regt. in boarding and capturing two French Privateers
off the Isle de la Passe. Commanded a Battalion of details with a force under Colonel the
Honourable Leicester Stanhope in Kattywar, and was in advance at the storm and capture of
the strong hill fortress of Meelialla.
17t Colonel Chaplin served in the Peninsula with the Coldstream Guards, and was severely
wounded at St. Sebastian (War Medal with one Clasp).
18 Colonel Close served the Egyptian campaign of 1801 (War Medal with one Clasp).
ISt Colonel Archibald Campbell served in the Peninsula with the 4th Portuguese Regt. from 20
May 1810 to the end of that war in 1814, including the battle of Busaco, Lines of Torres Vedras,
action of Campo IMayor, battle of Albuhera, first and second sieges of Badajoz, action at Arroyo
de Molino, battles of Vittoria, Pyrenees, Pampelnna (severely wounded in the side): on the
27th July with the Company he commanded he defended the hill where the principal attack of
that day was made, and drove the French thrice from it at the point of the bayonet, for which
he was promoted to the Brevet Rank of Captain in the Portuguese Army, as stated in the
Gazette of 11th Aug. 1813—" Era conscquenua da sua boa conducta no Campo de Batalha."
Also present at the battle of the Nive on 9th Dec., and in that before Bayonne on the 13th
December. On the 20th Dec. 1813 he commanded four companies of his Regt., with which
he took the Island of Holriague on the river Addur, and captured a number of prisoners and
a quantity of provisions and forage, which were forwarded to Lord Hill's head quarters.
Afterwards presect at the battle of Orthes, the action at Aire, and battle of Toulouse. Head
severely injured 24th June 1813, when pursuing the enemy to Pampeluna, Has received the

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