“_To Major John Doyle, on the half-pay of the late One hundred and fifth regiment._” The following officers were appointed to commissions in the EIGHTY-SEVENTH regiment, viz.:— [Sidenote: 1794.] _Lieut.-Colonel Commandant_—John Doyle. _Lieut.-Colonel_—Edward Viscount Dungarvan (afterwards Earl of Cork). _Major_—Walter Hovenden. _Captains._ Honorable George Napier. Nathaniel Cookman. Honorable Robert Mead. Percy Freke. Richard Thompson. Howe Hadfield. _Captain-Lieutenant_—James Magrath. _Lieutenants._ John Thompson. William Aug. Blakeney. John Wilson. Thomas Clarke. James Henry Fitz Simon. William Warren. William Magrath. Barton Lodge. _Ensigns._ Fleming Kells. William Murray. John Carrol. —— Walker. Benjamin Johnson. —— Salmon. _Adjutant_—John L. Brock. _Surgeon_— —— Hill. _Quartermaster_—Wm. Thomson. _Chaplain_—Edw. Berwick. The effective numbers were quickly recruited, and the regiment was so far formed as to be considered fit to be employed on active continental service. It was consequently embarked in the summer of 1794, as part of a force under Major-General the Earl Moira, and was sent to join the British army in Flanders, under the command of His Royal Highness the Duke of York. While on the march the EIGHTY-SEVENTH regiment was attacked on the 15th of July 1794, at the outpost of _Alost_, by a strong corps of the enemy’s cavalry, which it repulsed, and for which act of bravery it received the thanks of the general officer in public orders. It is a circumstance worthy of being recorded in the regimental history, that the first individual of the regiment who was wounded, was the Lieut.-Colonel by whom it was raised. In the general orders of the Earl of Moira upon this occasion, “he expressed his admiration of the cool intrepidity with which the EIGHTY-SEVENTH regiment repulsed an attack from the enemy’s cavalry, at the bridge of Alost, where its commander, Lieut.-Colonel Doyle, received two severe wounds, but would not quit his regiment, until the enemy had given up the attack.” The Duke of York, in his public letter, thus mentioned the affair:— “_Head-quarters, Cortyke,_ “_15th July 1794._ “Lord Moira speaks highly of the conduct of the officers and men of the EIGHTY-SEVENTH regiment on this occasion, particularly of Lieut.-Colonel Doyle, commanding the corps, who was severely wounded. (Signed) “FREDERICK.” [Sidenote: 1795.]