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Historical Record of the Fifty-sixth, or the West Essex Regiment of Foot: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1755, and of its subsequent services to 1844.Cannon, Richard

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Historical Record of the Fifty-sixth, or the West Essex Regiment of Foot: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1755, and of its subsequent services to 1844.

Name: Historical Record of the Fifty-sixth, or the West Essex Regiment of Foot: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1755, and of its subsequent services to 1844.
Author: Cannon, Richard

Cannon, Richard

Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 56th (West Essex) -- History

Removed to the Fiftieth Regiment in 1842.


THE EARL OF WESTMORLAND, K.C.B. & G.C.H

_Appointed 17th November, 1842._




SUCCESSION OF LIEUTENANT-COLONELS

OF THE

FIFTY-SIXTH, OR WEST ESSEX, REGIMENT OF FOOT.


  +-----------------------+--------------+-------------------------------+
  |         Names.        |   Dates of   |     Date of Removal, &c.      |
  |                       | Appointment. |                               |
  +-----------------------+--------------+-------------------------------+
  |Peter Parr             |Dec.  26, 1755|{Removed to Fourth Foot,       |
  |                       |              |{  June 30, 1760.              |
  |John Doyne             |June  30, 1760|Retired February 20, 1762.     |
  |James Stewart.         |Feb.  20, 1762|Died September 1, 1762.        |
  |Alexander Monypenny    |Sep.   1, 1762|Retired October 3, 1776.       |
  |John Caulfield         |Oct.   3, 1776|Retired November 6, 1778.      |
  |Henry Johnson          |Nov.   6, 1778|{Removed to Seventeenth Foot   |
  |                       |              |{  in 1778.                    |
  |Peter Craig            |Jan.   9, 1779|{Removed to Sixty-second Foot, |
  |                       |              |{  November 25, 1799.          |
  |William Earle Bulwer   |Sep.   1, 1795|{Placed on half-pay, November  |
  |                       |              |{  18, 1795.                   |
  |John Whitwell          |Nov.  18, 1795|Died in 1796.                  |
  |Thomas Picton          |May    1, 1796|{Promoted to the colonelcy of  |
  |                       |              |{  Seventy-seventh Foot,       |
  |                       |              |{  October 15, 1811.           |
  |P. K. Skinner          |Dec.  11, 1799|Removed July 25, 1814.         |
  |Samuel Keating         |Aug.   1, 1804|{Promoted to Bourbon regiment, |
  |                       |              |{  March 5, 1812.              |
  |Fletcher Barclay       |June  27, 1811|Retired April 26, 1831.        |
  |Boyle Travers          |Jan.   2, 1812|Removed July 25, 1814.         |
  |Nigel Kingscote        |Oct   17, 1811|{Placed on half-pay, December  |
  |                       |              |{  25, 1818.                   |
  |J. Frederick Brown     |March  5, 1812|{Exchanged to Twenty-eighth    |
  |                       |              |{  Foot, May 9, 1816, with     |
  |                       |              |{  Sir Charles Belson.         |
  |Henry Sullivan         |July   1, 1813|{Placed on half-pay, on the    |
  |                       |              |{  reduction of second         |
  |                       |              |{  battalion, on September     |
  |                       |              |{  6, 1817.                    |
  |John William Mallet    |Nov.   6, 1813|{Placed on half-pay, December  |
  |                       |              |{  25, 1814, on the reduction. |
  |Sir Charles P. Belson,}|May    9, 1816|{Placed on half-pay, on        |

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Historical Record of the Fifty-sixth, or the West Essex Regiment of Foot: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1755, and of its subsequent services to 1844.

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