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
For this army the whole of the available artillery was drawn together
and the provinces were denuded. The field batteries were thrown into the
magazines, and their bullocks appropriated to the siege-trains, and yet
when collected, the whole were barely sufficient to work the guns in
battery, without one single relief. In like manner the magazines from
Cawnpore to Kurnal poured forth all their munitions of war, but this
afforded only 114 siege-pieces, with about 1,000 rounds of shot per gun,
and 500 shells per mortar and howitzer, with a proportion of shrapnell
and case.[80] A reserve was formed at Allahabad to be pushed on as
opportunity offered.
The _personnel_ consisted of five and a-half troops of European, and two
of native horse artillery, nine companies of European, and five of
native foot artillery,[81] forming a total of about 1,200 Europeans, and
700 native artillerymen, with 500 lascars, but of these only 1,100 were
foot artillery, barely sufficient to man the guns, even when augmented
by a body of horse artillery recruits, who, just drafted into that
branch on the augmentation, were not qualified for the duties of mounted
artillerymen.
The following officers were present:—
Brigadier MᶜLeod, C. B., Commanding; Captain Tennant, Assistant
Adjutant-General; Lieutenant Dashwood, Aide-de-Camp.
Brigadier C. Brown, Commanding Horse Artillery; Lieutenant Winfield,
Major of Brigade.
Brigadier R. Hetzler, Commanding Foot Artillery and Park; Lieutenant
Johnson, Major of Brigade.
_Horse Artillery._
Lieutenant-Colonel Stark, Commanding 2nd Brigade.
Major Whish, Commanding 1st Brigade.
Captain J. Scott, Commanding 3rd Brigade.
Capt. Hyde,
Capt. N. Campbell,
Capt. Farrington,
Capt. Blake,
Capt. R. Roberts,
Capt. W. Bell,
Capt. Wood,
Lieut. Moreland,
Lieut. Nicholl,
Lieut. Pennington, Adjutant 3rd Brigade
Lieut. Bingley,
Lieut. Mackay, Adj. 1st Brig.
Lieut. Cullen,
Lieut. Maidman,
Lieut. MacLean,
Lieut. Ewart,
Lieut. MᶜMorine,
Lieut. Garbett, Adj. 2nd Brig.
Lieut. Wakefield,
Lieut. Alexander,
Lieut. W. Anderson,
Lieut. Wiggins,
Lieut. Backhouse,
2nd Lieut. Pillans,
2nd Lieut. Grote,
2nd Lieut. Boileau.
_Foot Artillery._
Lieutenant-Colonel Parker, Commanding 6th Battalion.
Lieutenant-Colonel Biggs, Commanding 3rd Battalion.
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