FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE of MARCH 21, 1851. THIS Gazette contains two Orders in Council, dated the 7th day of March 1851, approving the schemes duly prepared by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners for England For substituting a money payment to the prebendary of Bishop's Norton, in the cathedral church of Lincoln, for the property belonging to his prebend. For authorizing the sale of certain property formerly belonging to the prebend of Litton, in the cathedral church of Wells. War-Office, 21st March 1851. 7th Regiment of Dragoon Guards, Lieutenant James William Balfour, from the 89th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Gray, who exchanges. Dated 21st March 1851. 13th Regiment of Foot, Charles William Woodroffe, Gent. to be Assistant-Surgeon. Dated 21st March 1851. 19th Foot, Lieutenant Maurice Lynch Blake, from half-pay 57th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice John Phillipps, who exchanges. Dated 21st March 1851. 44th Foot, Ensign William Fletcher to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Howard, promoted. Dated 21st March 1851. George Ingham, Gent. to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Fletcher. Dated 21st March 1851. 48th Foot, Lieutenant William Roberts Williamson to be Adjutant, vice Maclurcan, promoted. Dated 21st March 1851. 50th Foot, Captain the Honourable James Pierce Maxwell, from the 59th Foot, to be Captain, vice Mackenzie, who exchanges. Dated 21st March 1851. 59th Foot, Captain Benjamin Grey Mackenzie, from the 50th Foot, to be Captain, vice Maxwell, who exchanges. Dated 21st March 1851. 73rd Foot, Lieutenant Christopher Harison to be Captain, by purchase, vice Littlehales, who retires. Dated 21st March 1851. Ensign Audley Henry Booth to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Harison. Dated 21st March 1851. 74th Foot, Staff Surgeon of the Second Class James Alexander Fraser, M.D. to be Surgeon, vice Affleck, appointed to the Staff. Dated 21st March 1851. 89th Foot, Lieutenant John Gray, from the 7th Dragoon Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Balfour, who exchanges. Dated 21st March 1851. Ceylon Rifle Regiment, Assistant-Surgeon John McGrigor Augustus Thomas Croft, from the Staff, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Rambaut, appointed to the Staff. Dated 21st March HOSPITAL STAFF. Surgeon Duncan Affleck, from the 74th Foot, to be Staff Surgeon of the Second Class, vice Fraser, appointed to the 74th Foot. Dated 21st March 1851. Assistant-Surgeon John Rambaut, from the Ceylon Rifle Regiment, to be Assistant-Surgeon to the Forces, vice Croft, appointed to the Ceylon Rifle Regiment. Dated 21st March 1851. MEMORANDUM. The Christian names of Ensign Adams, of the 20th Foot, are George Hewish," not "Huish" as previously stated. The date of the commission of Lieutenant Geddes Sansoni Twynam, of the 61st Regiment of Foot, is the 14th March 1851, and not 12th March 1851, as stated in the Gazette of 14th instant. GENERAL ORDER. Horse Guards, 21st March, 1851. The Queen having been pleased to signify her assent to a measure, which has been proposed by the Court of Directors of the East India Company, of granting, a Medal to the surviving Officers and Soldiers of the Crown, who were engaged in the services in India enumerated in the accompanying list: Officers and Soldiers, who consider that they may have a claim to receive such Medal, are each to apply, the General Officers, through the Se eretary of the Commander-in-Chief of the Army; The Staff Officers, through the General Officers under whom they served,-if alive,-if not alive, through the Adjutant General of the Army; Officers, Non-Commissioned Officers, and Soldiers of Her Majesty's regiments, battalions, and detachments, through the Commanding Officer of the regiment, battalion, or detachment, at the time, if still alive. This will be known by enquiry at the agents of the regiment resident in London. If such Commanding Officer should not be alive, the application in writing must be made through the Adjutant General of the Army. The Board of General Officers is hereby, by Her Majesty's Command, directed to take into consideration,—to investigate,—the facts stated in each of these several applications, and to report to the Commander-in-Chief upon the same, for the information of Her Majesty, in order that the Medals may be delivered to the Claimants accordingly. The Adjutant General, and the Military Secretary to the Commander-in-Chief, will transmit to the Secretary to the Board of General Officers such information as they may have been able to acquire, to assist in the investigations which the Board will have to make; and Her Majesty has been graciously pleased to command that the departments of the Secretary at War, and of the Paymaster General, may furnish to the Board such information as the records of those Departments, respectively, can furnish, of the names of those serving with the Troops of the Crown in India at the periods of the several achievements specified. The Commander-in-Chief has been required to desire, that the Board of General Officers will have alphabetical lists made out of the names of the claimants to one of these Medals, together with their rank, and the names of the particular battles or sieges at which they may have been present. It having moreover been represented to Her Majesty, that the Officers and Soldiers of the Crown who were engaged in the Mysore war, and at the siege of Seringapatam, have already received Medals from the East India Company for those services, Her Majesty has further been graciously pleased to permit the same to be worn by them with their uniforms. By Command of Field Marshal The DUKE OF WELLINGTON, G. BROWN, Adjutant General. LIST OF BATTLES, &c. IN INDIA. Storm of Allighur, 4th September 1803. Siege and Storm of Gawilghur, 15th December 1803. Defence of Delhi, October 1804. Battle of Deig, 13th November 1804. Capture of Deig, 23rd December 1804. War in Nepaul, in 1816. Battle of Kirkee, and November 1817. Battle and Capture of Poona Battle of Seetabuldee, and November and Battle and Capture of Nagpoor, December 1817. Battle of Maheidpore, 21st December 1817. Defence of Corygaum, 1st January 1818. War in Ava, 1824 to 1826. Siege and Storm of Bhurtpore, January 1826. |