Historical Record of the Nineteenth, or the First Yorkshire North Riding Regiment of Foot: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1688, and of its subsequent services to 1848Cannon, Richard
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Historical Record of the Nineteenth, or the First Yorkshire North Riding Regiment of Foot: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1688, and of its subsequent services to 1848
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Green Howards
The depôt companies left Ireland in 1841, and were stationed a short
time at Gosport; they proceeded to Brighton in March, 1842, and to
Dover Castle in October.
[Sidenote: 1843]
General Sir Hilgrove Turner, G.C.H., K.C., died at Jersey, in May,
1843, and General Sir Warren Marmaduke Peacocke, K.C.H. and K.C., was
appointed by Her Majesty Colonel of the NINETEENTH regiment.
The service companies proceeded in the Resistance troop-ship from
Malta to the Ionian Islands on the 9th of January, 1843, under the
command of Lieutenant-Colonel Hay, and arrived at Corfu on the 20th
of the same month; five days afterwards the head-quarters and three
companies embarked in the Boyne transport for Cephalonia.
In October, 1843, the depôt companies marched from Dover to
Winchester, and from thence to Portsmouth, where they embarked for
Jersey.
[Sidenote: 1845]
On the 18th of June, 1845, the depôt companies embarked at Jersey for
Ireland, and disembarked at Waterford.
On the 5th of December, 1845, the service companies of the NINETEENTH
regiment embarked at Corfu for the West Indies, in the Java
freight-ship, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Hay.
[Sidenote: 1846]
The regiment arrived at Barbadoes on the 19th of January, 1846.
[Sidenote: 1847]
In February, 1847, the regiment embarked at Barbadoes for St. Vincent.
[Sidenote: 1848]
The regiment returned to Barbadoes in April, 1848, and was
transhipped on board the Bombay transport on the 12th of that month,
and sailed in a few days for North America.
On the 1st of July, the date to which the record has been continued,
the service companies were stationed at Montreal, under the command
of Major Sanders, and the depôt companies, under Major Calley,
remained in Ireland, the head-quarters occupying the barracks at
Castlebar.
[Sidenote: 1848]
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