The History of the 2nd Dragoons: "Royal Scots Greys"Almack, Edward
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The History of the 2nd Dragoons: "Royal Scots Greys"
Almack, Edward
Great Britain. Army. Dragoons, 2nd (Royal Scots Greys)
Born, 4 December, 1858. 2nd Lieutenant, 19 February, 1881.
Lieutenant, 1 July, 1881. Captain, 9 October, 1889.
Expedition to Dongola, 1896. Despatches "London Gazette," 3
November, 1896. Fourth Class Medjidie.
Major, 29th April, 1900. Served in South African War, 1901-2, and
took part in operations in the Transvaal, February, 1901, to May,
1902; the Zululand frontier of Natal, September and October, 1901;
and in Cape Colony, May, 1902 (medal with five clasps).
ALEXANDER AGNEW.
Cornet, 31 May, 1715.
ANDREW AGNEW.
Captain-Lieutenant, 1 April, 1692, to 21 March, 1692-3. Captain, 22
March, 1692-3, to 9 March, 1697-8. Major, 1702.
ANDREW AGNEW.
Cornet, 20 September, 1703. Lieutenant, 11 May, 1705.
Captain-Lieutenant, 8 February, 1712-13. Captain, 16 September,
1715.
Sir Andrew Agnew, fifth Baronet of Lochnau, twelfth and last of
the hereditary Sheriffs of Galloway, was born in 1687. He joined
Marlborough's army as a volunteer immediately after the battle
of Blenheim.... He fought bravely at Ramillies, Oudenarde, and
Malplaquet. At the Peace of Utrecht he was reduced as Captain on
half-pay of the Scots Greys. Soon after he eloped with a kinswoman,
the daughter of Captain Thomas Agnew, of the same regiment. This
lady, to whom he was married in London, bore him 18 children.
She survived her husband, and died at the age of 87. At the time
of the rebellion of 1715-16, the young laird of Lochnau was on
full pay in Colonel Pocock's, which was disbanded in Ireland in
1718, when he was removed to the 21st Royal Scots Fusiliers, with
which corps he served upwards of a quarter of a century, becoming
Lieutenant-Colonel in 1740, and commanding it with distinction
at the battle of Dettingen. He held Brigade commands under the
Duke of Cumberland in Flanders, at Bruges, Ghent, and Ostend,
and at the head of his Scots Fusiliers accompanied the army sent
to Scotland in 1746, when he was detached to Blair Castle, and
made a gallant stand there. In 1756 he became Major-General, and
Lieutenant-General in 1759. Sir Walter Scott describes him as a
soldier of the old school, stiff and formal in manner, brave to the
last degree, and something of a humourist.
JAMES AGNEW.
Cornet, 31 May, 1715.
THOMAS AGNEW.
Cornet, 1702. Lieutenant, 11 May, 1705. Captain-Lieutenant, 31 May,
1715.
PATRICK AINGER.
Chirurgeon, 11 April, 1687.
GEORGE AINSLIE.
Made Cornet, 13 January, 1753. Made Sub-Lieutenant in the second
troop of Horse Grenadier Guards, 8th August.
GILBERT AIRD.
Promoted from Sergeant in the Major's troop, to Quartermaster in
Captain Clarke's troop, May, 1800. Cornet in Royal Wagon Train, 9
January, 1804.
THOMAS AIRD.
Cornet, 26 August, 1794. Lieutenant, 16 August, 1799. Captain in
Royal Wagon Train, May, 1800.
THE HONOURABLE WALTER PHILIP ALEXANDER.
Son of the third Earl of Caledon. Born, 9 February, 1849.
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