Loading your reading…

A Brief Sketch of the Long and Varied Career of Marshall MacDermott, Esq., J.P. of Adelaide, South AustraliaMacDermott, Marshall

History

A Brief Sketch of the Long and Varied Career of Marshall MacDermott, Esq., J.P. of Adelaide, South Australia

Name: A Brief Sketch of the Long and Varied Career of Marshall MacDermott, Esq., J.P. of Adelaide, South Australia
Author: MacDermott, Marshall

MacDermott, Marshall

Immigrants -- Australia -- Biography; MacDermott, Marshall, -1877; Soldiers -- Great Britain -- Biography

Produced by The Online Distributed Proofreading Team at
http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from scans of
public domain works at The National Library of Australia.)









                             A BRIEF SKETCH
                                 OF THE
                         LONG AND VARIED CAREER
                                   OF
                          Marshall MacDermott
                              ESQ., J.P.,
                                   OF
                       ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA.


                                -------

            WRITTEN SOLELY FOR PRIVATE DISTRIBUTION AMONGST
                     RELATIVES AND SPECIAL FRIENDS.


                                -------

                               ADELAIDE:
            WILLIAM KYFFIN THOMAS, PRINTER, GRENFELL-STREET.

                                -------

                                 1874.


------------------------------------------------------------------------




                             A BRIEF SKETCH

                                 OF THE

                         LONG AND VARIED CAREER

                                   OF

                    Marshall MacDermott, Esq., J.P.

                     OF ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA.

                    --------------------------------


THE following pages were written very recently, under a degree of
pressure from some members of my family; and as I possessed no memoranda
whatever to aid me in such a work, I have had to rely entirely upon
memory; therefore errors in details may reasonably claim excuse, after
the lapse of so long a period of time. These papers are written _solely_
for private distribution amongst relatives and special friends; and, as
my family is rather numerous and dispersed, the necessity arises of
having them printed.

                  *       *       *       *       *

I obtained a Commission in the Army of His late Majesty King George
III., at a very early age, through the influence of Lord Hutchinson, at
that time British Ambassador at the Court of St. Petersburg, and joined
the 2nd Battalion of the 8th (or King’s) Regiment of Foot, in the year
1808, at Chester. Being anxious to be employed on foreign service, I
obtained leave in the same year to join the 1st Battalion of the
Regiment at Halifax, in Nova Scotia, and towards the close of that year
embarked again with a division of troops under Sir Geo. Prevost, to
attack the French islands of Martinique, Guadaloup, &c., in the West
Indies. The Halifax Division consisted of the 8th, 13th, 7th, and 23rd
Fusileers, with Artillery and Engineers; and we joined the West Indian
Division under the Commander-in-Chief, Sir Geo. Beckwith, at Barbadoes.

Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.

A Brief Sketch of the Long and Varied Career of Marshall MacDermott, Esq., J.P. of Adelaide, South Australia

No reviews yet