Historical Record of the Thirty-ninth, or the Dorsetshire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1702, and of its subsequent services to 1853.Cannon, Richard
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Historical Record of the Thirty-ninth, or the Dorsetshire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1702, and of its subsequent services to 1853.
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army. Dorset Regiment -- History; Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 39th (Dorsetshire) -- History
Colonel Lindesay had, previously to the receipt of this
communication, been removed from the command of the cantonment
of Bangalore, and appointed on the 3rd of January to that of the
southern division of the Madras army, with the temporary rank of
Brigadier-General. He accordingly proceeded to Trichinopoly, the
head-quarters of that division. From this place he made application
that the THIRTY-NINTH might be permitted to resume the following
distinctions, which had been borne on the regimental colour and
appointments for many years, but which had been discontinued about
the year 1807, namely the motto “_Primus in Indis_,” and the word
“PLASSEY;” also the device of the “_Castle and Key_,” in addition
to the word GIBRALTAR and the motto “_Montis Insignia Calpé_.” His
Majesty King William the Fourth was graciously pleased to approve
of these distinctions being resumed by the THIRTY-NINTH, and the
result was communicated by the Adjutant-General on the 24th of
November 1835, to Lieut.-Colonel Sir Robert William O’Callaghan,
Colonel of the regiment.
On the 14th of December 1835, the regiment was reviewed at
Bangalore by Major-General Hawker, commanding the Mysore division
of the army, who after a minute inspection expressed to Major
Poole his perfect approbation of its appearance, movements, and
discipline.
[Sidenote: 1836.]
In February 1836, Colonel Lindesay embarked for Europe, having been
relieved in the command of the southern division of the Madras
army by Major-General Sir John Forster Fitzgerald, K.C.B., in the
preceding October.
Colonel Lindesay, on his departure, was presented by the officers
with a gold snuff-box, value nine hundred rupees, bearing the
distinctions of the regiment, in which he had served for upwards of
forty years.
[Sidenote: 1837.]
A gold snuff-box, value five hundred rupees, was also presented, in
January 1837, to Arthur Hamilton, Esq., surgeon of the regiment, on
his return to Europe.
A detachment, consisting of two captains, seven subalterns, nine
serjeants, four drummers, and two hundred rank and file, marched
from Bangalore on the 10th of April 1837, under the command of
Captain Walpole, to assist in quelling an insurrection which had
taken place in Canara and Malabar.
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