Historical record of the Sixty-Seventh, or the South Hampshire Regiment: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1758, and of its subsequent services to 1849Cannon, Richard
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Historical record of the Sixty-Seventh, or the South Hampshire Regiment: Containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1758, and of its subsequent services to 1849
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army -- History; Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 67th (South Hampshire)
Major Owen, who commanded the flank companies of His Majesty's
SIXTY-SEVENTH regiment, was particularly mentioned in Orders by
Brigadier-General Doveton, who also reported that "the fall of Asseer
leaves to the Brigadier-General only the pleasing task of recording
his sense of the merits and exertions of the officers and troops, and
of bringing them to the notice of superior authority, where they can
alone be fully and properly appreciated.
"To the means placed at the Brigadier-General's disposal, by
the rapid advance of the division under the personal command of
Brigadier-General Sir John Malcolm, K.C.B., as well as of the troops
from the Nerbudda field force and from Saugur, under the personal
command of Brigadier-General Watson, C.B., to the science and
skill of the engineer and artillery branches, and finally to the
distinguished gallantry and persevering exertions of the whole of
the officers and troops whom the Brigadier-General has the honor to
command, are principally to be attributed the fall of so stupendous a
fortress in eleven days from the opening of the trenches....
"He requests also that Lieutenant-Colonels MacDowell, Dewar, Ewart
(Lieut.-Colonel of the SIXTY-SEVENTH regiment), Greenstreet, and
Pollock, commanding brigades of infantry, will be fully persuaded
of the high estimation in which he holds the eminent services
rendered by them, as well as by the officers and men of their several
brigades"....
Brigadier-General Sir John Malcolm also reported:--
"I have to state my sense of the zeal and activity of my
Aide-de-Camp, Ensign G. Pasley, of His Majesty's Fourteenth foot,
and extra Aide-de-Camp Lieutenant J. Pasley, of His Majesty's
SIXTY-SEVENTH foot."
On the 12th of April, the SIXTY-SEVENTH marched from Asseerghur, and
arrived at Mallygaum on the 26th of the same month.
The decease of Major Nathaniel Benjafield, of the SIXTY-SEVENTH
regiment, occurred on the 2nd of June, 1819.
[Sidenote: 1820]
The regiment proceeded on the 6th of December, 1820, from Mallygaum,
in Candeish, and arrived at Sholapore, in the Deccan, on the 29th of
that month.
[Sidenote: 1823]
Colonel Samuel Huskinson, the Lieut.-Colonel of the SIXTY-SEVENTH
regiment, was promoted on the 19th of July, 1821, to the rank of
Major-General, and on the 10th of January, 1837, was advanced to the
rank of Lieutenant-General.
Marching from Sholapore on the 23rd of April, the regiment arrived at
Poonah on the 10th of May, 1823.
[Sidenote: 1826]
On the 2nd of January, 1826, the first battalion of the SIXTY-SEVENTH
regiment embarked in three divisions at Bombay for Calcutta, and
arrived there on the 2nd of March following. On the 13th of March the
battalion proceeded to Rangoon, and arrived opposite the town on the
27th of the same month. The battalion returned to Calcutta on 5th of
April following.
Major S. B. Taylor, Captain W. Webster, and Lieutenant J. Hassall,
of the SIXTY-SEVENTH regiment, died at Fort William during April and
May of this year.
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