Napoleonic Literature
The Services of the Royal Regiment of Artillery
in the Peninsular War 1808 to 1814
Chapter IV

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A List of Officers of the Royal Artillery, who were serving in the Peninsular 1810, shewing the Troops, and Companies to which they belonged, compiled from the Official Monthly Returns, and Muster Rolls now at the Public Record Office, Chancery Lane, London.

3 Troops, Royal Horse Artillery.


Troop.           Designation in 1924.             Arrived in                        Captain.                               2nd Captain.                              1st Lieutenants.                         1st Lieutenants.                          1st Lieutenants.              Station on 31 December.
                                                                          Peninsula.
 "A"             "A" Battery, R.H.A.                 July, 1809                          Hew D. Ross1                      George Jenkinson                     Alexander Macdonald2            George J. Belson2                        George B. Smyth2             Near Santarem.
                         (The Chestnut Troop).

 "D"             "V" Field Battery, R.A.            March, 18103                    George Lefebure                  Edward C. Whinyates2            William Dunn2                            Thomas Carter2                           Hugh Mallett                     Lisbon1

 "I"               "I" Battery, R.H.A.                  August, 1809                     Robert Bull1                         W. Norman Ramsay                 Philip Stanhope                          Charles Blachley                         Hassell R. Moor2              Casal de Oiro34

 

13 Companies, Royal Artillery (Foot).


Battalion.     Designation in 1924.            Arrived in                        Captain.                                 2nd Captain.                              1st Lieutenants.                         1st Lieutenants.                          2nd Lieutenants.              Station on 31 December.
                                                                         Peninsula.
     1st             2nd Field Battery, R.A.         March, 1809                     John May5                            Henry Baynes                           William Elgee                               John Pascoe2                               William Denniss                Alverca

     2nd           4th Heavy Battery, R.A.        February, 1810                Patrick Campbell6                 Arthur Hunt                               Spencer P. Brett                          Thomas Grantham                     {Arthur Carter7                    Isla de Leon (Cadiz)8
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    {Henry Pester

     4th            82nd Field Battery, R.A.        October, 18109                James Hawker                       William Latham                          Peter Faddy                                 Thomas Trotter                           William Henry Bent          Cabeço da Montachique35

     5th            17th Medium Battery, R.A.   March, 1809                    Frederick Glubb                    William G. Power                       Daniel M. Bourchier, 2, 10           John G. Martin11                         James Love                       Torres Vedras

       "              9th Heavy Battery, R.A.       January, 181012               Humphrey Owen                  William Cator                             William Brereton13                      George H. Mainwaring               Henry R. Wright               Cadiz

     7th            18th Field Battery, R.A.        March, 1809                     George Thompson14            Henry B. Lane15                        William C. Johnston                   Robert Woollcombe                  {John Mercier                     Cartaxo
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                    {Frederick Bayly

     8th            37th Field Battery, R.A.        September, 1808              Andrew Bredin                     Thomas Terrell                          Hon. William Arbuthnott3         Bernard Wills                               Francis Dawson               Alhandra

       "              87th Field Battery, R.A.                "             "                 Robert Lawson1                  {John Taylor17                            Henry Fosting                              James W. Johnson                     William B. Ingilby,2, 19    Alemquer
                                                                                                                                                                 {Alfred Thompson18

       "              Reduced in 1819 and             October, 181020              Philip Meadows                   John S. Byers21                          Richard B. Hunt                           Eliott Seward                               William Furneaux            Lisbon
                                    never reformed.

     9th             Ditto                                        January, 181022              Philip J. Hughes                   Francis Bedingfield                   John Maxwell                               Charles Manners                         Anthony B. Harrison     Isla de Leon (Cadiz)

    10th            16th Pack Battery, R.A.        March, 181023                William Roberts                  {Hon. Herbert Gardner26           William B. Dundas25                    Rodham Home26                          William Cozens               Ditto33
                                                                                                                                                                {Robert W. Gardiner27

       "              "B" Coast Battery, R.A.       April, 181028                   Alexander Dickson,1, 29      Robert M. Cairnes30                  Philip J. Woollcombe                  William A. Raynes31                   Lynch Talbot                  Ditto

       "              Hd. Qrs., Golden Hill,           April, 181028                    William Shenley                   Jonathan Mallett                       Brownlow J. Maitland                  Robert Godby32                         Thomas O. Cater             Cadiz
                              Isle of Wight.

 
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