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
A company of the reserve battalion under Captain Henry J. Coote
was detached to Sissi on the 29th of August in aid of the civil
power, and was subsequently employed in very arduous services
under the proclamation of martial law, which lasted from the
31st of August, to the 27th of October 1849, and in suppressing
the outbreak in Cephalonia. Privates Taylor and Green of this
company were wounded in a skirmish with the insurgents. A company
under Lieutenant Rickard Lloyd proceeded in September to Sissi to
reinforce the detachment under Captain Coote, and after serving in
conjunction therewith, returned to head-quarters with it on the
15th of October. One company under Captain Nugent proceeded to
Faraclata on the 16th of September, and assisted in the pursuit of
the outlawed rebels; a portion of this detachment, under Ensign
Alfred Macdonald, was employed as a flying column, and scoured
the country in chase of the three outlawed rebel chiefs for
twenty-three days, during the whole of which time it was subjected
to the most fatiguing marches and labour. The reserve battalion
during the period of martial law from the 31st of August to the
27th of October 1849, which was administered by Lieut.-Colonel
Trollope, was frequently employed in pursuit of rebels (parties,
varying from forty to a hundred, being despatched into the country
for this purpose) in disarming turbulent and refractory villages,
and in guarding the town of Argostoli, the men having very seldom
more than one night in bed.
[Sidenote: 1850.]
In April 1850 it was directed that the regiment should be reduced
to a thousand rank and file; the reserve battalion at Cephalonia
was in consequence broken up, and consolidated with the first
battalion at Corfu, where the regiment was stationed during this
year.
[Sidenote: 1851.]
In March 1851, four companies embarked at Cephalonia for England
for the purpose of forming the depôt, which was afterwards
stationed at the Isle of Wight, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel
Trollope.
The service companies, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel Ashmore,
embarked at Corfu for the West Indies on the 21st of March 1851 in
the freight ship “Java,” and arrived at Barbadoes on the 16th of
May following, where they were stationed during the remainder of
the year.
Major-General the Lord Frederick FitzClarence, G.C.H., was
appointed Colonel of the THIRTY-SIXTH regiment on the 23d of July
1851, in succession to General Sir Roger Hale Sheaffe, Bart.,
deceased.
[Sidenote: 1852.]
In May 1852 the service companies were removed from Barbadoes to
Trinidad.
The depôt companies proceeded in April 1852 from Parkhurst to Fort
Pembroke Dock.
On the 31st of December 1852, the date to which this record has
been brought, the service companies continued to be stationed at
Trinidad, and the depôt companies at Fort Pembroke Dock.
1852.
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