Memoir of the Services of the Bengal Artillery: From the Formation of the Corps to the Present Time, with Some Account of Its Internal OrganizationBuckle, E. (Edmond)
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Memoir of the Services of the Bengal Artillery: From the Formation of the Corps to the Present Time, with Some Account of Its Internal Organization
Buckle, E. (Edmond)
India -- History -- British occupation, 1765-1947; India -- History, Military; India. Army. Bengal Artillery
The regiment now was composed of the horse artillery, consisting of
seven troops, including the rocket-troop; three European battalions of
seven companies each, twelve regular and six irregular companies of
golundaz, forty-five lascar and twenty-six driver companies. The new
organization directed it to consist of seven troops of horse artillery,
three European battalions, of eight companies each, one native battalion
of fifteen companies, with a company of lascars attached to each
company, European or native (39), and seventeen bullock and two horse
field-batteries, each of eight pieces, with a driver company to each.
The officers were allotted to the different portions of the regiment in
the following proportion:—
──────────────────────┬──────────────────────┬─────────────────┬───────
Horse Artillery. │3 European Battalions.│Native Battalion.│Total.
──────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼─────────────────┼───────
1 Colonel │ 3│ ...│ 4
2 Lieutenant-Colonels│ 6│ ...│ 8
2 Majors │ 6│ 1│ 9
7 Captains │ 24│ 13│ 44
28 1st Lieutenants │ 48│ 4│ 80
— 2nd Lieutenants │ 48│ 4│ 2
──────────────────────┴──────────────────────┴─────────────────┴───────
The rank of 2nd captain was abolished, and that of 2nd lieutenant
substituted for lieutenant-fireworker; serangs of gun-lascars were made
jemadars; serang-major, soobahdar; 1st and 2nd tindals, havildars and
naiks; gunners were styled bombardiers, and matrosses, gunners.
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