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59th (or the 2nd Nottinghamshire) Regiment of Foot. (2nd Battalion.)

Rank in the
LIEUT.-COLONEL.Regiment.Army.
1Henry Austen23Sept.181325 Jan. 1812
MAJORS.
2Fred. W. Hoysted17June,1813Lt.-Col., 26 Dec. 1813
3Charles Douglas20Apr.1815
CAPTAINS.
4Francis Fuller5Oct.1809
James Cockburn4Sept.1812
5Abraham Pilkington17June,1813
Jas. Arch. Crawford22July,1813
6Jas. MacGregor25Sept.1813
John Fawson11Nov.1813
LIEUTENANTS.
Robert Preedy15June,1808
Wm. F. Mayne4Sept.1808
7Abraham Dent4June,1809
8John Cowper7June,1809
Henry Brown26Oct.1809
9Alexander Macpherson21Dec.1809
10Edward Duncan28Feb.1811
Archibald Campbell, Adjt.28Mar.1811
11Nicholas Chadwick5Dec.1811
Nicholas Hovenden12Dec.1811
12Lewis Carmichael7Mar.1812
13Henry Hartford12Mar.1812
14Paterson O’Hara2Sept.1812
15Wm. Veall23Sept.1813
16Wm. Pittman27Sept.1813
Wm. Henry Hill25May,1814
Gilmour Robinson1Sept.1814
ENSIGNS.
17Andrew Clark Ross23Sept.1813
18Henry Keane Bloomfield30Sept.1813
19Rowley F. Hill25May,1814
20Charles Makepeace13Apr.1815
PAYMASTER.
21Charles Marr7Mar.1805
QUARTERMASTER.
22Wm. Baird31May,1810
SURGEON.
23James Hagan25Nov.18139 Sept. 1813
ASSISTANT-SURGEONS.
24Peter K. Lambe8Feb.1810
Andrew Colvin9Sept.1813
Facings white. Lace gold.

Notes

1. Placed on h. p. in March, 1816.

2. Saw service in the Pa. Transferred to 1st Batt. in 1816. Serving in 1817.

3. Drowned in Tramore Bay, near Waterford, when the Seahorse transport was wrecked in a storm, 30th Jan., 1816. Son of Capt. Wm. Douglas 11th Foot.

4. Major 17th July, 1817. Bt. lt.-col. 19th Jan. 1826. Lt.-Col. 59th Foot 25th Nov., 1828. Recd. the gold medal for San Sebastian. Distinguished himself at the siege of Bhurtpore. C.B. D. in Jersey 19th Apr., 1868.

5. Placed on h. p. in May, 1816. 9th son of Thos. Pilkington (of the Westmeath family), by Bridget, dau. of the Rev. Ephraim Harpur. D. 24th May, 1843.

6. Lost in the wreck of the Seahorse. Brother to Col. George MacGregor of 1st batt. same regt. Had served at Corunna and Vittoria, where he was severely wounded.

7. Afterwards adjt. Lost in the Seahorse.

8. Saved when the Seahorse was wrecked.

9. Saved when the Seahorse was wrecked. This officer’s Waterloo medal was for some years in the Editor’s collection of war medals.

10. Capt. 48th Foot 19th May, 1837. Retd. as maj. in 1840.

11. Capt. 13th Foot 3rd Aug., 1826. Serving 1830.

12. Capt. 5th Dec., 1826. Major of a corps raised for “particular service” 1st Jan., 1838, and bt. lt.-col. serving in aforesaid regt. in 1842.

13. Saved when the Seahorse was wrecked.

14. H. p. 1816. D. in Dublin 1850.

15. Lost in the Seahorse. A native of Portsmouth and son of a master-builder of that town.

16. Capt. 49th Foot 12th Apr., 1831. H. p. 10th Jan., 1834. D. 17th Nov., 1853.

17. Lost in the Seahorse.

18. Capt. 11th Foot 1st Apr., 1824. Lt.-col. 11th Foot 27th June, 1845. Living 1860.

19. Lost in the Seahorse.

20. Capt. 4th D.G. 24th July, 1823. Retd. as major 1841.

21. H. p. 1816.

22. Lost in the Seahorse with his wife and two children.

23. Lost in the Seahorse.

24. Lost in the Seahorse.

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