On the 13th September seven companies were formed, and on the 6th December, three additional companies were added to the battalion. The establishment of each company was as follows:-- [Sidenote: Lieutenant Kane to R. H. Crew, Esq.] 1 Captain. 1 Captain-Lieutenant. 2 First Lieutenants. 1 Second Lieutenant. 4 Sergeants. 4 Corporals. 8 Bombardiers (and 3 non-effective, _i.e._ _paper_ men). 97 Gunners. 3 Drummers. Many of the men for the 8th Battalion were obtained by calling for volunteers from the Army of Reserve; and although every obstacle was thrown in the way of this method of obtaining recruits, by the officers commanding the Reserve Battalions, which were this year called out for service, very many excellent men were thus obtained. It is unfortunate that the Battalion record-book of the 8th Battalion has been lost since 1859, the year when Battalion Head-quarters were abolished, because, although these books were, as a rule, very meagre in the information they afforded, they nevertheless supplied facts which it would have been difficult to obtain elsewhere without great [Sidenote: Lieut. J. Ritchie, Staff-Officer, Coast Brigade, R.A.] labour. That labour, in the case of the 8th Battalion, has been readily undertaken by an officer at Head-quarters, and to his industry the reader is indebted for the following tables. Unfortunately, the history of the companies of the 8th and 9th Battalions, after 1850, must be postponed until the separate work on the Crimean services of the Artillery shall be written. But these tables give the earlier history, and the various stations--down to about 1850--on which the companies served, as well as the succession of Captains: and the war services of most of the companies will be found in the subsequent accounts of the various campaigns. No. 1 COMPANY, 8th BATTALION, Now “H” BATTERY, 1st BRIGADE, R.A.[10] -----------------------------+--------------------------------- Succession of Captains. | Stations. -----------------------------+--------------------------------- 1803 F. Walker. |Formed 1803, 13th Sep., Woolwich. 1803 J. Hawker. | -- 1803 W. Scott. |1803 Dec., Gibraltar. 1803 R. Hope. |1808 Aug., Portugal. (Exp^{n.}) 1804 R. W. Adye. |1815 Feb., Woolwich. 1804 23rd Oct., A. Bredin. |1819 Feb., Dover. 1816 22nd May, J. Taylor. |1822 Feb., Mauritius. 1819 1st Feb., A. Munro. |1830 15th Dec., Woolwich. 1823 3rd July, T. Greatley. |1834 1st Feb., Jersey. 1828 23rd Nov., J. Sinclair. |1840 29th Aug., Woolwich. 1841 25th Oct., W. Greenwood.|1841 27th Nov., China. 1848 30th May, P. Ellis. |1848 4th March, Woolwich. |1848 22nd Nov., Ireland. No. 2 COMPANY, 8th BATTALION, Now “H” BATTERY, 11th BRIGADE, R.A.