[9] Robert Cahill was transferred as Serjeant to the Thirty-First regiment, for the purpose of being Pay-Serjeant to Captain Bray, who exchanged from the EIGHTY-EIGHTH, with Captain Hutton. Cahill was on board the Kent East Indiaman, when she took fire in the Bay of Biscay, and from the account given by Captain Bray, his conduct and extraordinary exertions on that trying occasion were most exemplary and conspicuous. Having lost his Medal (which was of the First Class) and all his necessaries, the Non-Commissioned Officers and Privates of the Light Company (in which Company Cahill served during the whole of the Peninsular war) made a subscription amongst them of Five Pounds to purchase him a kit, which sum was sent to him by Lieutenant and Adjutant Souter, who at the same time made him the present of a Medal, which he forwarded through the Horse Guards. TRANSCRIBER’S NOTE Obvious typographical errors and punctuation errors have been corrected after careful comparison with other occurrences within the text and consultation of external sources. Some hyphens in words have been silently removed, some added, when a predominant preference was found in the original book. Some wide tables in the Appendix have had { and } bracketing removed, some have had the column divider | removed, to reduce the width.