History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, Vol. 1

APPENDIX No. 5

Chap. XXIII. – Page 251

Establishment of the Royal Regiment of Artillery, March 15th, 1771.

N.B.– The above establishment has been given, as representing the state of the Regiment a century previous to the publication of this work.

APPENDIX No. 6.

Chap. XXIV. – Page 265

GEORGE R.

Our Will and Pleasure is that for the future the Captain-Lieutenants in Our Royal Regiment of Artillery and Corps of Engineers shall take rank as well in Our Army as in their respective Corps and that the present Captain-Lieutenants shall take their rank as Captains from the 26th day of May 1772 and all future Captain-Lieutenants in the said Corps from the date of their respective Commissions.

Dated St. James's, 22nd of June 1772.

(Signed) Suffolk.

ROYAL ARTILLERYChanges in the Designation of the Troops and Companies on and after the reorganization of 1st July, 1859

ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY.

ROYAL ARTILLERY.

Changes in the Designation, &c. – continued.

1

Clode.

2

This table is reproduced from the MSS. of the late Colonel Cleaveland.

3

Feurutter, according to Colonel Miller.

4

Fourutter, according to Colonel Cleaveland.

5

The brass 18½-in. mortars were used at the Siege of Limerick in 1689, and in the porch of the cathedral in that city one of the shells is still to be seen. An interesting account of Artillery details at that siege is to be found in Story's 'History of the Wars in Ireland.'

6

Macaulay.

7

Miller.

8

Browne's 'England's Artillerymen.'

9

N.B.– It was not until November, 1727, that these four companies were fully completed. They were, however, decided upon at the date referred to in Colonel Borgard's diary.

10

Thackeray.

11

Cust.

12

Macbean's MSS.

13

Macbean's MSS.

14

Cleaveland's MSS. Macbean's MSS.

15

Brown.

16

MS in Royal Artillery Record Office.

17

MS. in Royal Artillery Record Office.

18

Lieutenant-Colonel Leith was killed subsequently at the bombardment of Havannah, while in command of the Artillery.

19

Cleaveland's MSS.

20

Afterwards Lord Camperdown.

21

Murdoch.

22

Cleaveland's MSS.

23

At the capture of St. Sebastian, ten men of this Company volunteered for the storming party, and were instrumental in deciding the fate of the attack by the gallant style in which they turned two of the enemy's guns upon the garrison, driving the defenders from the works.

24

Colonel Cleaveland's MSS.

25

Drinkwater.

26

Drinkwater.

27

Drinkwater.

28

Drinkwater.

29

Drinkwater.

30

MSS. R. A. Record Office.

31

Stedman.

32

MSS. R. A. Record Office.

33

Hildreth's 'History of the United States.'

34

During recent researches in America, the author found an old order-book taken by the Americans when Burgoyne surrendered, containing the most favourable notices of the Royal Artillery under his command.

35

Cust.

36

Canon Kingsley, at the R.A. Institution, on October 3rd, 1871.

37

MS. Correspondence of General Pattison, R.A.

38

Official MS. Correspondence, Commandant's Office, New York.

39

MSS. in R. A. Regimental Library.

40

Cust.

41

Lee.

42

Lee.

43

MSS. in R. A. Library.

44

Browne, now Bandmaster of the Royal Horse Artillery.

45

Cust.

46

Lee.

47

Kane's List.

48

Kane's List.

49

It may be interesting to state here that on the 5th October, 1783, the first Committee was chosen to establish a regular Regimental Mess in the new barracks on the Common. The entrance subscription was fixed at 1l. 1s. Hitherto the officers had messed in two public-houses in Woolwich, known jocularly as the "Bastion," and "Redan." The new mess-room – afterwards a chapel – was where the Recreation Rooms now are.

50

Cust.

51

Lieutenant Carter had been taken prisoner by the enemy's fleet on Lake Ontario in 1813, and was closely shut up to be hanged in retaliation for deserters. He succeeded, however, in making his escape, and after travelling 1500 miles of country, joined his company previously to the opening of the campaign of 1814.