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A.th (Royal Irish) Regiment of Dragoon Guards. [^Manchester!
57
Full
Pay.
14
Half
Pay.
On the Standards and Appointments the HARP and CROWN, and the
Star of St. PATRICK, with the motto “ Quis Separabit 1 ”
“ PENINSULA.”
Colonel.
Richard Pigot,
1
Ens. 4 Sept. 93 ; Lieut. 16 Sept. 93 ; Copt. 21 Dec. 93; Major,
29 April 02 ; Lieut.-Col. 1 May 06; Col. 4 June 14 ; Maj.-Gen. 19 July 21 ;
Lieut.-Gen. 10 Jan. 37 ; Col. 4th Dragoon Guards, 26 Nov. 49.
Lieut.-Colonel.
Edward Cooper Hodge, Cornet, 3 Aug. 26; Lieut, p 3 July 28; Capt. p 19 Dec.
34; Major, P3 Dec. 41; Lt.-Col. P3 Oct. 48.
Major.
William Charles Forrest, Cornet, Pll Mar. 36; Lieut, r 5 Jan. 39; Capt.
p 7 Sept. 41; Major,
p
3 Oct. 48.
Captains.
Thos. Oliver W. Coster ..
Francis Rowland Forster
Josias Rogers John Coles
3
James Cunningham ....
Thomas Jones
Fra. Hastings G. Nicolls
Lieutenants.
John Mullen, adj
Ernest Henry Lane ....
Thos. Miller Clarke, R.M.
Michael M'Creagh
Thomas Bigoe Williams
A rth. M ast erson Robei tson
John Collingwood
John MacDonnell Webb
Cornets.
John Rich. Smyth Wallis
W.Wm. RudyerdWilliams
John Glasgow
James Robert Scott ....
cornet.
LIEUT.
CAPTAIN.
p 4 Aug. 37
p 7 Feb. 40
p 2 Sept. 36
P21 Mav 41
p 23 July 41
p 2 June 43
p 23 Nov. 38
PIT Mar. 42
p 22 Mar. 39
p 7 April 43
p 19 May 43
p 27 Mar. 46
p 27 Mar. 46
p 29 Jan. 47
p 19 Mar. 47
p 8 Oct. 47
p 30 June 48
p 3 Oct. 48
BREVET
MAJOR.
9 Mar. 43
P 14 July 43
30 July 44
26 J uly 44
p 23 Aug. 44
p 18 May 46
v 19 May 46
p 2 Apr. 47
p 19 Mar. 47
p 8 Oct. 47
p 7 July 48
p 3 Oct. 48
26 Mar. 46
p 19 May 46
p 29 Jau. 47
p 19 Mar. 47
p 2 Apr. 47
p 8 Oct. 47
P 30 June 48
P2 Oct. 49
4 Capt. Ralston was embark¬
ed with a detachment of the
24th Light Dragoons in the out¬
ward bound Indian fleet, which
maintained an action with a
French squadron, under Ad¬
miral Linois, off the Mauritius,
6th Aug. 1805, and in which the
enemy were beaten off. On the
6th Aug. 1809, he led the ad¬
vanced squadron of his regi¬
ment in action with the rebels before Seringa-
patam, in which the latter were beaten and dis¬
persed; and on the same date he commanded
the outlying piquet in a night attack from the
garrison of Seringapatam.
Paymaster.—John Ralston,
4
29 Dec. 25; Cornet, P6 July 04; Lieut. 10 July
06; Capt. 26 May 14.
Adjutant.—Lieut. John Mullen, 10 March, 43.
Quarter-Master.—John Thompson, 3 Oct. 48.
Surgeon.—Chilley Pine,
5
5 Dec. 43 ; Assist.-Surg. 2 Aug. 33.
Assist.-Surgeon.—James Flyter, 6 June 45.
Veterinary Surgeon.—James Rainsford, 25 Dec. 28.
Scarlet—Facings Blue.—Agent, Andrew Lawrie, Esq.
[Returnedfrom Portugal, May, 1813.]
1 Lieut.-Gen. Pigot was actively employed in the West Indies in 1794; in the Mediterranean and capture
of Minorca in 1798; at the capture of the Cape of Good Hope in 1806; and in the East Indies in 1818.
8 Capt. Coles served with tile 4th Light Dragoons in the campaign under Lord Keane in Scindc and
Affghanistan in 1888-9, and was present at the taking of Gliuznee.
5 Mr. Pine served with the 26th on the China expedition, (medal) and was present at the first capture of
Chusan, attack on Canton, attack and capture of Amoy, repulse of the night attack on Ningpo, attack and
capture of Tscke, Cltapoo, Shanghai Woosung, and Chin Kiang Foo. He acted as senior Medical Oflicer in
the campaigns in New Zealand, from April 1845 to May 1846, and was present at the destruction of Po-
mare’s Pah, attack on Heki’s Pah, destruction of the Waikadi Pah, storming of Kawiti’s Pah at Ohianai,
and capture of Kawiti’s Pah at Puapekapel.u.