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)
Quartermaster, 1706, in Major Boyd's troop.
JOHN FREEMAN.
16 May, 1782, appointed Cornet in the Colonel's troop. Lieutenant,
7 February, 1787.
JOHN ARTHUR FREEMAN.
Cornet by purchase, 7 August, 1846. Lieutenant by purchase, 21
June, 1850. Captain by purchase, 11 November, 1853. Died, 27
September, 1854.
JOHN FREESTONE.
Quartermaster, 1706.
JAMES CARNEGIE FULERTOUN.
Captain, 2 May, 1793. In Muster ending 24 March, 1799, en second.
JOHN FURNIER.
Cornet, 12 September, 1695, to 9 March, 1697-8.
(WILLIAM) GALLOWAY.
Cornet, 15 June, 1716.
The 3rd son of James, 5th Earl of Galloway and Catherine, daughter
of the 9th Earl of Eglinton, is given by Burke, as "William, served
as a Cavalry Officer. M.P., Wigtown Burghs."
JAMES GAPE.
Cornet, 29 April, 1813. Lieutenant, 3 May, 1815. Captain by
purchase, 19 January, 1817. Exchanged to half pay, unattached, 6
December, 1833.
JAMES GARDINER.
24 February, 1707-8, Lieutenant in Captain William Crawford's
Additional Troop.
The above entry in the original manuscript "Army List" at the
Record Office was evidently unknown to the editors of the
"Dictionary of National Biography," who have been careful to
explain that the famous Colonel Gardiner killed at Prestonpans had
not served in the Greys.
In the same manuscript the Earl of Stair is recorded as Colonel,
and this same William Crawford as Captain-Lieutenant commanding the
Colonel's own troop. In the next MS. list, of about 1714, James
Gardiner appears again.
The chief points in Gardiner's life must be taken from the Rev.
Dr. Doddridge's "Some remarkable passages in the Life of the Hon.
Colonel James Gardiner, who was slain at the battle of Prestonpans,
September 21, 1745." He was the son of Captain Patrick Gardiner,
of Torwood Head, Linlithgowshire, and was born 10 January, 1687.
At the early age of 14 he bore an ensign's commission in a Scotch
Regiment in the Dutch service until 1702, when he received an
Ensign's commission from Queen Anne. At the age of 19, in the
battle of Ramillies, he received a wound in his mouth by a musket
ball. "He was of a party in the forlorn hope, and was commanded on
what seemed almost a desperate service, to dispossess the French of
the churchyard at Ramillies, where a considerable number of them
were posted to remarkable advantage. He planted his colours on an
advanced ground, and while he was calling to his men, he received a
shot into his mouth."
Mr. Dalton has rightly recorded Gardiner as a Lieutenant in the
Greys, and adds a note--"Master of the Horse to the Earl of
Stair when that nobleman was sent Ambassador to France in 1715.
Appointed Major of the Earl of Stair's Regiment of Dragoons (now
the Inniskilling Dragoons), 14 January, 1717. Lieutenant-Colonel of
the same Regiment, 4 January, 1730. Colonel of the Regiment now the
13th Hussars, 18 April, 1743."
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