Historical Record of the Thirty-sixth, or the Herefordshire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1701, and of its subsequent services to 1852Cannon, Richard
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Historical Record of the Thirty-sixth, or the Herefordshire Regiment of Foot: containing an account of the formation of the regiment in 1701, and of its subsequent services to 1852
Cannon, Richard
Great Britain. Army. Herefordshire Light Infantry -- History; Great Britain. Army. Regiment of Foot, 36th -- History
On the 2d June 1822 Major-General Sir Frederick Adam, K.C.B.,
commanding, was pleased to order the head-quarters and three
companies stationed at Fort Neuf to join the remaining companies at
the citadel, as well as the regimental hospital to be established
there, which was productive of much comfort to the corps, together
with the unremitting and unwearied attention of the medical
department, as well as at their solicitation to send a portion of
the men that had not quite recovered from the diseases contracted
at Cephalonia, to the sick depôt formed at Malta, which was acceded
to, and they accordingly embarked for that station on the 8th of
August, where they arrived on the 13th of the same month. This
arrangement was attended with the fortunate result of restoration
to their former good health; and, upon the 27th of October
following, two serjeants and forty-two rank and file arrived from
Malta in His Majesty’s ship “Cambrian;” and at subsequent dates
others arrived, leaving only a very few bad cases at Malta; so that
afterwards it generally had the fewest sick of any regiment in the
Ionian Islands, or in the Mediterranean.
[Sidenote: 1823.]
On the 1st of February 1823, the detachment which was stationed
at Cerigo arrived at Corfu, and joined the head-quarters of the
regiment.
[Sidenote: 1825.]
In the year 1825, the establishment of the regiment was augmented
from eight to ten companies, and formed into six _service_ and four
_depôt_ companies, consisting of forty-two serjeants, fourteen
drummers, and seven hundred and forty rank and file.
The regiment remained in the Ionian Islands until the 2d of
December 1825, when it embarked at Santa Maura for England.
[Sidenote: 1826.]
On the 18th of February 1826, the regiment disembarked at
Chatham; in the spring it proceeded to Colchester, afterwards to
Macclesfield, Stockport, Manchester, and Bolton.
[Sidenote: 1827.]
During the early part of the year 1827, the regiment remained at
Bolton, in Lancashire, and in April it proceeded to Liverpool, from
which place it embarked for Ireland on the 14th of that month. The
regiment arrived at Dublin on the following day, proceeded from
thence to Mullingar, and returned to Dublin in August following,
where it was stationed during the remainder of the year.
[Sidenote: 1828.]
In May 1828, the regiment proceeded from Dublin to Naas, and in
October it was removed to Limerick.
[Sidenote: 1829.]
The regiment remained at Limerick until August 1829, when it
proceeded to Birr, and continued during the rest of the year at
that station.
Lieut.-General Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe, Bart., was appointed Colonel
of the THIRTY-SIXTH regiment on the 21st of December 1829, in
succession to General Sir George Don, G.C.B. and G.C.H., removed to
the Third foot, or the Buffs.
[Sidenote: 1830.]
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