Commissioned Officers of the 73rd Regiment Who Served in Ceylon
1814-1821
A provisional list of all the officers of the 73rd Regiment who performed military
duties in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) during the years 1814-1821. Also included are those
members of the 1/73rd who, in addition, may have served in New South Wales or Van Diemen's Land
(Tasmania) in the period 1809-1814.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
© 2004
Research list prepared by Robin Walsh, Macquarie University Library
robin.walsh@mq.edu.au
See also:
List of Officers of the 73rd Regiment in 1796.
ATKINS, Thomas (1786-1848)
Commissioned: Ensign (45th Foot) 26 October 1804; Lieutenant (36th Foot) 30 January 1806;
(73rd Foot) 21 March 1811; cashiered by General Court Martial in Colombo for being drunk on
duty and other misdemeanours, 1815.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1812-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814.
Arrived: Colombo, on the transport Earl Spencer 25 March 1814. Soon after his arrival he was
courtmartialled in Colombo: 6-15 June 1814 (for drunkeness while on duty).
Died: 5 Apr 1848, Port Arthur, Tasmania, aged 62 years.
ATKINSON, John (c.1798-18**)
Commissioned : Ensign (73rd Regiment) 2 August 1815; Lieutenant (without
purchase: vice McConnell - deceased) 24 January 1818; ; half-pay 31 March 1820;
full-pay (48th Foot) 24 March 1824; half-pay (York Chasseurs) 25 May 1825.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: 1816-1819.
Arrived: on the Alexander 5 October 1816.
BAGNET, James
Commissioned: Lieutenant
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: on duty at Batticaloa in April 1815?
BARNES, James (c.1792-1847)
Commissioned: 2nd Lieutenant (3rd Ceylon Regiment) 28 November 1811; half-pay 25
May 1817; full pay (19th Foot) 25 March 1818; Lieutenant (73rd Foot) 7 October
1818; half-pay 23 July 1820.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: c.1818-1820.
BEWS, John (17**-1851)
Commissioned: Paymaster 1st Greek Light Infantry 28 November 1811; half-pay on
reduction 9 August 1816; full-pay (73rd Foot) 18 November 1819; retired on
half-pay (73rd) 1 July 1836.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: 1820-1821.
BICKNELL, Thomas Bethell (17**-1832)
Commissioned: Ensign 10 May 1811;
Lieutenant 26 November 1813; retired to half pay of 4th Ceylon Regiment, 25
December 1815.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1813-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1815-1816.
Arrived: Colombo, on the transport General Brown(e) 2 March 1815.
BIGHAM, Thomas
Commissioned: Ensign 27 July 1815 (73rd); retired 28 August 1817
[by sale].
Served in NSW/ VDL: No.
Served in Ceylon: 1816-1817.
Arrived: Colombo, on the Alexander 5 October 1816.
BIRCH, John (c.1782-1835)
Commissioned: Paymaster (73rd Regiment) 21 August 1806; half-pay Greek Light Infantry 18 November 1819; went on to half-pay due to ill-health.
Served in NSW/VDL: 1810-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1817.
Died: 6 July 1835.
BLENNERHASSETT, Aldworth (1797-1854)
Commissioned: Ensign 23 March April 1814 (73rd Regiment)(without purchase);
Lieutenant 5 October 1815 (73rd Regiment)(without purchase: vice Browne -
deceased); half-pay 25 December 1818, subsequently amended to 11 January 1822;
full-pay (38th Foot) 1 December 1823; Captain 26 August 1834 (38th Foot);
exchanged to half-pay (unattached) 19 January 1838.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Fought at the Battle of Waterloo.
Served in Ceylon: 1818-1821.
Arrived in Ceylon on Surat Castle in May 1818.
Died: 31 July 1854, at Monkstown, Ireland.
BUTLER, William Henry (17**-1845)
Commissioned: Ensign 10 August 1815 (73rd
Regiment); Lieutenant 3 November 1818 (73rd Regiment)[without purchase] [vice
Wright, promoted]; half-pay 25 December 1818; exchanged with Lieutenant Crosby 21
December 1823 (45th Regiment); Captain 5 April 1831 (45th Regiment); Major 1
November 1840.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: 1817-1818.
CAMERON, Hugh John (c.1777-1849)
Commissioned: Ensign 27 November 1795 (73rd); Lieut. 25 November 1796 (73rd); Captain 1 August 1804 (antedated from 14 May
1805)(73rd); Major (73rd Regiment) 4 June 1813; half-pay York Chasseurs 12 August
1824; Brevet Lt. Col. 22 July 1830; went on half-pay on account of ill health
(lost use of left arm) from length of service in Ceylon/India.
Served in NSW/VDL: 1809-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1821.
Arrived: Galle, on the transport General Hewitt 8 August 1814.
CAMPBELL, Duncan (1794-1820)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 2 February 1809; Lieutenant (73rd Regiment) 13 November 1810.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1810-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1820.
Arrived: Galle, on the transport Windham 29 October 1814.
Died: near Trincomalee, 28 September 1820.
CAMPBELL, Jeremiah (c.1785-1852)
Commissioned: Enlisted as Private (73rd Regiment), 10 May 1804; Corporal (73rd) 21 May 1807; Sergeant (1/73rd Foot) 24 June 1807; Sergeant-Major 24 March 1809; Quartermaster (1/73rd Foot) 28 July 1814; retired on half-pay (12th Foot) 11 November 1824.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1810-1814
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1821.
Died: 24 March 1852.
CAMPBELL, John (17**-1817)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 20 July 1815.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: 1816-1817.
Arrived: Colombo, on the Alexander 5 October 1816.
Died: drowned in Colombo harbour 27 January 1817.
CARTER, John (c1782-1850)
Commissioned: Assistant Surgeon 25 September 1803 (2nd Battn. Light Infantry of
the Line KGL); 19 September 1805 (45th Foot); 15 October 1807 (73rd Regiment);
Surgeon 2 March 1809 (73rd); retired on halfpay 10 October 1817 (60th Foot);
MD at Marischal College, University of Aberdeen 1827.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1810-1814.
Served in Ceylon 1814-1816.
Arrived: Galle, on the transport General Hewitt 8 August 1814.
Died: at Ramsey, Isle of Man, on 18 May 1850.
COANE, Anthony (17**-1819)
Commissioned: Ensign 1 November 1804 (45th Foot); Lieut. 2 August 1805 (95th
Foot); Captain (73rd Regiment) 9 March 1809; Major (73rd) 24 June 1817 [by
purchase].
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1812-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1819.
Arrived: Galle, on the transport General Hewitt 8 August 1814.
Died: at Kandy, 5 January 1819.
COANE, James (1803-1837)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 21 July 1819; Lieutenant (73rd) 3 March
1825; half-pay half-pay [unattached] 12 October 1832.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: 1820 - 1821.
COANE, William Conyngham (18**-1817)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 4 August 1815.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: 1816-1817.
Arrived: Colombo, on the Alexander 5 October 1816.
Died: drowned in Colombo harbour 27 January 1817.
CONNOR, Philip
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 6 February 1811; Lieutenant
(73rd) 8 August 1812.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1813-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814.
Arrived: Colombo, on the transport Earl Spencer 25 March 1814.
Additional: dismissed from 73rd Regiment by courtmartial on 11 August 1814.
COSBY *****
Commissioned: Lieutenant (73rd Regiment)
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: c.1819-1820.
COWELL, Lambert (c.1800-1867)
Commissioned: Gentleman Cadet RMC; Ensign (73rd Regiment) 24 August
1815; Lieutenant (73rd) 22 January 1818 (without purchase, vice
Power); half-pay 25 December 1818; full-pay 7 December 1820 (89th Foot);
25 January 1821 (19th Foot); half-pay 25 October 1821; 4
January 1833 (99th Foot); Captain, half-pay (unattached) 16 January 1846; 3 October
1848 (15th Foot); retired by sale 3 October 1848; appointed a Military
Knight of Windsor in June 1867.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: 1817-1819.
Arrived: Galle, on the Thalia 28 September 1817.
Died: 24 August 1867, at Windsor, England.
DAWSON, George (1788-c.1853)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 7 May 1811; Lieutenant (73rd) 7 January
1813; Captain 20 March 1828; Brevet-Major 23 November 1841; Major (half-pay
unattached) 29 December 1843; retired by sale 13 December 1850.
Served in NSW/VDL: 1813-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1821.
Arrived: Galle, on the transport General Hewitt 8 August 1814.
DEACON, Thomas (1788-1853)
Commissioned: Ensign 5 April 1813 (73rd
Regiment)[without purchase]; Lieutenant 3 August 1815 (73rd)[without purchase];
Fort Adjutant (at Trincomalee 1818-1823); Lieutenant (16th Foot) 6 February
1822; exchanged into Ceylon Rifles 12 January 1824; Captain (unattached) 29 April
1836 (without purchase); Captain (Brevet Major) 9 November 1846; (28th Foot) 15
January 1847; exchanged (25th Foot) 29 December 1847.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Fought at the Battle of Waterloo.
Served in Ceylon: 1817-1822.
DERMOTT, John Martyn (c.1789-1819)
Commissioned: Assistant Surgeon 4 May 1809.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1810-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1819.
Arrived: Galle, on the transport Windham 29 October 1814.
Died: Trincomalee, 5/6 October 1819.
DEWAR, Duncan (-1821)
Commissioned: 2nd Lieut (21st Foot) 1 September 1804; Adjutant (21st) 25 October
1804; Lieutenant (21st) 29 November 1805; Captain (73rd Regiment) 29 June 1815;
half-pay 25 June 1817.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No.
Served in Ceylon: No
Died: 19 August 1821, Perth, Scotland.
DOUGLAS Thomas Gale (-1822)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 6 June 1816; half-pay 25 June 1817.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: c.1820-1821.
Died: 10 May 1822, in Edinburgh.
DREWE, Richard (1780-c.1834) [1]
Commissioned: Ensign 16 August 1805 (35th Foot); Lieut. & Adjutant 22 August 180*
(61st Foot); Captain (73rd Regiment) 28 May 1812; Major 10 June 1826 (91st); 13
July 1826 (73rd); Lieut. Col. 12 July 1831(half-pay unattached).
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: 1817-1822.
Arrived: Galle, on the Thalia 28 September 1817.
DREWE, Richard [2]
Commissioned: Ensign 1 June 1820 (73rd Regiment).
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: ??
EAGAR, Francis (17**-1815)
Commissioned: Ensign 16 July 1807 (73rd Regiment);
Lieutenant (73rd) 5 January 1809; Adjutant 2 March 1809; Captain (73rd) 3 August
1815.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1810-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1815.
Arrived: Galle, on the General Hewitt 8 August 1814.
Died: 6 November 1815, Calcutta.
EASTWOOD, Charles Bedford (17**- c.1826)
Commissioned: Ensign 6 April 1813 (73rd
Regiment); Lieutenant (73rd) 4 August 1815; exchanged to 3rd Ceylon Regiment;
placed on half-pay 11 June 1818; Lieutenant (49th Foot) 8 April 1825.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Fought at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815.
Served in Ceylon: 1817-1818.
Arrived: Galle, on the Thalia 28 September 1817.
FARREN, Charles Henry Hay (c.1788-1819)
Commissioned: Ensign, Warwick Militia [no date given]; Lieutenant 21 May 1811;
from Militia (?), Ensign (73rd Regiment) 12 May 1812; Lieutenant (73rd) 23 March
1814 [also served as Paymaster in Ceylon].
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: 1816-1819.
Arrived: on the Alexander 5 October 1816.
Died: Galle, 12 April 1819.
GEILS, Andrew (1773-1843)
Commissioned : Cadet in 1790; Ensign [Lieutenant Fireworker] (Madras Artillery) 9
July 1791; Lieutenant (Madras Artillery) 12 February 1796; resigned 13 April
1798; Cornet (19th Regiment of Dragoons) 21 April 1798; Lieut. (6th Regiment of
Foot) 2 May 1800 [by purchase]; Captain (6th Regt?) 22 April 1801; half-pay
(Recruiting Corps) 1802-1803; Captain (92nd Regiment) 9 July 1803; transferred
Captain (73rd Regiment) 28 April 1804 ; Major (73rd) 7 July 1808 ; Lieut. Colonel
(73rd) 4 June 1813; half-pay 18 April 1818.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1811-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1816.
Arrived: Galle, on the transport Windham 29 October 1814.
GLENHOLME, Henry (c.1773-1818)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 23
February 1800; Lieutenant (73rd) 8 December 1802; Adjutant (73rd) 14 January
1808; Captain (73rd) 1 February 1809.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1810-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1818.
Arrived: Colombo, on the transport General Brown(e) 2 March 1815.
Died: 1 November 1818, Kandy.
GORDON, George Alexander
Commissioned: Ensign 17 December 1791 (18th Regiment of Foot); transferred (74th Foot) 12 February 1793; Lieutenant (73rd Regiment) 8 September 1795; Captain-Lieutenant (73rd) 6 April 1802; Captain (73rd) 7 June 1803 ; Major (73rd) 19 January 1809; Lieut.Colonel (73rd) 4 June 1814; retired: 24 June 1817.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1810-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1817.
Arrived: Colombo, on the transport Earl Spencer 25 March 1814.
GREENSHIELDS, Andrew (17**-1815)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 14
September 1809; Lieutenant (73rd) 12 September 1811.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1811-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1815.
Arrived: Galle, on the transport General Hewitt 8 August 1814.
Died: 31 August 1815 at the Isle de France (Mauritius).
HASWALL, Barrington (1797-1817)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 1 August 1815.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: 1816-1817.
Arrived: Colombo, on the Alexander 5 October 1816.
Died: drowned in Colombo harbour 27 January 1817.
HAY, Patrick (17**-1827)
Commissioned: Assistant Surgeon (73rd Regiment)10 June
1813; exchanged to Ensign [Adjutant] (73rd) 19 January 1815; Lieutenant (73rd) 13
February 1816; Captain (73rd) 7 February 1822.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Fought at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815.
Served in Ceylon: 1816-1821.
Arrived: on the Prince of Orange 1816.
HESELRIGE, Robert Greville (1796-c.1820)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment)
17 September 1812; Lieutenant (73rd) 1 August 1815; half-pay (73rd) 1818; retired
7 August 1818 [by sale].
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Fought at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815.
Served in Ceylon: 1816-1818.
Arrived: Colombo, on the Alexander 5 October 1816.
HOLMES, Hugh (17**-1818)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 21 March 1810;
Lieutenant (73rd) 19 February 1812.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1811-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1818.
Arrived: Galle, on the transport General Hewitt 8 August 1814.
Died: 6 October 1818, at Hambantota (Sri Lanka).
HUGHES, George (1779-1851)
Commissioned: Commissioned: Ensign (2nd Surrey Militia) 27 December 1809; Lieut. (2nd Surrey
Militia) 7 October 1811; Ensign (73rd Regiment) 29 April 1813 (without purchase);
Lieutenant (73rd) 4 October 1815 (without purchase); half-pay 25 December 1818
(date of half-pay altered to 3 August 1822 from 1823 Army List).
Served in Waterloo Campaign as Supernumerary or Officer en second.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: c.1821-1822.
HUMPHRY, George [or HUMPHRIES]
Commissioned: Cornet (21st Light Dragoons) 4 May 1800 (1st Dragoons) 19 June 1800; Lieutenant (14th Light Dragoons) 28 August 1800; Captain, 23 June 1804 (27th Foot) 27 August 1807;
Half-pay (105th Foot) 15 November 1810; Full pay (12th Foot) 17 November 1814;
Brevet-Major 4 June 1814; Major (73rd Regiment) 4 April 1816; Half-pay 25 June
1817; Full pay (73rd) 15 January 1818; Lieutenant Colonel half-pay unattached 7
February 1822; retired [by sale] 1 October 1825.
Served in Waterloo Campaign as Supernumerary or Officer en second.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: c1818-1819.
Arrived: Trincomalee, November/December 1818 on the Topaze (from Portsmouth via Cape Town).
IRWIN, Charles
Commissioned: Ensign [83rd Regiment] 22 April 1813; Lieutenant (73rd
Regiment)[without purchase] 9 October 1818; half-pay 25 February 1820; full-pay
(83rd Foot) 29 August 1822; half-pay (unattached) 5 August 1829.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: doubtful
KELLY, Dawson (17**-1837)
Commissioned: Ensign 25 June 1800 (47th Foot);
Lieutenant 15 January 1810 (47th Foot); Captain 26 January 1804 (York Light
Infantry Volunteers); Captain 31 October 1811 (27th Foot); Major 31 October
1811 (73rd Regiment); Brevet Lieut. Colonel 18 June 1815 (73rd); half-pay 15
January 1818; Brevet Colonel 10 January 1837.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Fought at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815.
Served in Ceylon: ??
Died: 1837.
KENNY, William Crowe (c.1785-1828)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 13 December 1796; Lieutenant (73rd) 5 April
1800; Captain (73rd) 12 January 1809; Major [by purchase] 7 February 1822.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1810-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1816.
Arrived: Galle, on the Windham 29 October 1814.
KISHORN, James (c.1800-1819)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment).
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: c.1818.
Died: 14 January 1819, Trincomalee.
LECKY, Holland (1794-1821)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 18 November 1819.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: c.1820-1821.
Died: 1 May 1821, Trincomalee (Sri Lanka).
LIDWILL, Mark (17**-1818)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 3 August 1815;
Lieutenant (73rd) 7 August 1808.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: 1817-1818.
Arrived: on the Wellington 17 February 1817.
Died: 30 September 1818, Batticaloa (Sri Lanka).
LLOYD, John Yeedon/Yuden (1795-18**)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 7 January 1813 [without purchase]; Lieutenant (73rd) 4
August 1814 (by purchase); Captain (73rd) 3 February 1820 [by purchase: vice
Coane - resigned]; Major (73rd) 20 March 1828 [without purchase]; retired [by sale]
19 July 1839.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Fought at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815.
Served in Ceylon: 1817-1821.
Arrived: Galle, on the Thalia 28 September 1817.
LYTTLETON, William Thomas (1784-1839)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 12 April 1809; Lieutenant (73rd) 15 November 1810; retired 28 October 1824 [by sale].
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1810-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1820.
Arrived: Galle, on the transport Windham 29 October 1814.
Died: 7 June 1839, in London.
McBEAN, William (17**-1819)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 1 April
1813; Lieutenant (73rd) 2 August 1815.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Fought at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815.
Served in Ceylon: 1816-1819.
Arrived: on the Alexander 5 October 1816.
Died: 6 January 1819, near Badulla (Sri Lanka).
McCONNELL, John R. (17**-1818)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 7 February 1811;
Lieutenant (73rd) 8 August 1811 [by purchase].
Served in NSW/ VDL: No.
Served in Ceylon: 1816-1818.
Arrived: on the Alexander 5 October 1816.
Died: 23 January 1818.
McCREERY, Archibald (1787-1815)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 16 June
1808; Lieutenant (73rd) 9 May 1810.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1810-1815.
Served in Ceylon: 1815.
Arrived: Colombo, on the H.M. Armed Brig Kangaroo 24 July 1815.
Died: 13 November 1815, at Colombo.
MACLAINE, John (c.1792-1818)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 10 January
1809; Lieutenant (73rd) 8 November 1810.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1810-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1817-1818.
Arrived: on the Wellington 17 February 1817.
Died: 13 January 1818, killed in action near Bootle (Sri Lanka).
MACLEAN, Charles Norman (d.1822)
Commissioned: Ensign (60th Foot) 5 October 1811; Lieutenant (60th) 29 December
1812; transferred (73rd Regiment) 10 June 1813; half-pay 25 June 1817.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No.
Served in Ceylon: 1815-c.1817.
Arrived: on the HEIC Carnatic 3 September 1815.
Died: 30 July 1822, at Southend, Essex.
McMAHON, William O'Brien
Commissioned: Ensign (91st Foot) 28 August 1804;
Lieutenant (91st) 10 April 1806; Captain (95th Foot/Later 96th ) 9 September
1816; half-pay 25 December 1818; Captain [full-pay] (73rd) 30 December 1819;
retired [by sale] 15 September 1825.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No.
Served in Ceylon: c1820-1822.
McNAUGHTON, Archibald
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 3 June 1807;
Lieutenant (73rd) 21 April 1808.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1810-1814.
Arrived: Colombo, on the Earl Spencer 25 March 1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814.
Additional: courtmartialled, 10-13 August 1814 in Colombo (for
drunkeness while on duty) - dismissed from the regiment. Sentence confirmed 8
March 1815.
MARTIN, George (1784-1837)
Commissioned: Hospital Mate 9-31 May 1809; Assistant Surgeon (73rd Regiment) 1 June 1809; half-pay 25 December 1818; full-pay 24 August 1820; Surgeon 10 March 1825.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1810-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1821.
Arrived: Colombo, on the transport Earl Spencer 25 March 1814.
Died: 23 September 1837 at Zante/Corfu.
MAUGER Charles Mathew (17**-1819)
Commissioned: 2nd Lieutenant (3rd West India Regiment) 22 February 1816; half-pay
(3rd Ceylon Regiment) 25 May 1817; full-pay (73rd Regiment) 24 January 1818
(transferred from half-pay: vice Atkinson - promoted).
Served in NSW/VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: c.1818-1819.
Died: 15 May 1819, probably on the voyage home on the Liverpool.
MINTER, George
Commissioned: Ensign (3rd Ceylon Regiment) 14 November 1811; Half-pay 25 May
1817; Full-pay (1 Ceylon Regiment) 1817; Lieutenant 15 January 1818 (73rd
Regiment) [transferred from 1st Ceylon Regiment, vice Maclaine - deceased];
Half-pay 25 December 1818; (45th Foot) 16 December 1820; half-pay (45th Foot) 20
October 1821; (45th Foot) 24 July 1823; Captain 29 April 1832; (28th Foot) 28
June 1839; Major [unattached] 29 November 1844; retired [by sale] 9 June 1846.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No.
Served in Ceylon: 1818-1820.
MONCK, Henry
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 3 October 1815; Lieutenant (73rd) 2
February 1820; Half-pay 25 October 1821; Retired 14 November 1826.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No.
Served in Ceylon: 1818-1821.
MUNICK, Henry (also MUNICH/MUNNIK, Henrich)
Commissioned: Ensign (Cape Regiment) 27 June 1806; Lieutenant (4th Ceylon
Regiment) 8 March 1810; Half-pay 1816; Lieutenant [Full-pay] (73rd Regiment) 11
July 1816 (exchanged from 4th Ceylon Regiment; vice: Bicknell); half-pay 25 June
1817; full-pay 1 January 1818; half-pay (4th Ceylon Regiment) 25 December 1818;
Retired 1 January 1831.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No.
Served in Ceylon: 1816 - 1818.
MURPHY, Martin (17**-1819)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 13 April
1809; Lieutenant (73rd) 21 February 1811.
Served in NSW/ VDL: July 1811-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1819.
Arrived: Colombo, on the transport Earl Spencer 25 March 1814.
Died: 7 June 1819, at Kornegalle (Sri Lanka).
MURRAY, John
Commissioned: Ensign (87th Foot) 14 November 1794; Lieutenant (87th
Foot) 5 April 1796; Captain (12th Battalion Reserve) 9 July 1803; (80th Foot) 14
April 1804; exchanged (to 73rd Regiment) 22 January 1807; Brevet-Major 4 June
1814; Major 3 August 1815; retired (by sale) 4 April 1816.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1810-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1817.
Arrived: Galle, on the transport Windham 29 October 1814.
O'BRIEN, Patrick (c.18**-1823)
Commissioned: From Gentleman Cadet RMC; Ensign (73rd Regiment) 22 July 1819.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: ?
O'CONNELL, Sir Maurice Charles Philip (1766-1848)
Commissioned: entered the British Army as Captain (Irish Brigade) 10 October
1794; half-pay (Irish Brigade) 1 March 1798; (1 West India Regiment) 21 May 1800;
Brevet-Major 1 January 1805; Major (5th West India Regiment) 23 May 1805; (73rd
Regiment) 15 October 1806; Lieut Colonel (73rd) 4 May 1809; Brevet-Colonel (73rd)
12 August 1819; Major-General (73rd) 22 July 1830; Lieutenant General (73rd ) 23
November 1841; Colonel (81st Foot) 6 December 1842; (80th Foot) 15 January 1844;
Lieut-Governor of NSW; commanded the forces in Australia 1838-47.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1810-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1821.
Arrived: Galle, on the transport General Hewitt 8 August 1814.
Departed: Trincomalee, on the Elizabeth 25 June 1821 (regimental
recall) with wife, Mary, and three children. O'Connell was the commanding officer
of the regiment throughout the whole tour of duty by the 73rd in Ceylon (Sri
Lanka) - as well as in NSW [1810-1814].
Died: 25 May 1848, in Sydney (Australia).
Additional: Born 11 September 1766 at Riverston [or Riverstown], County Kerry,
Ireland. Son of Charles Philip O'Connell and Alicia Connell, daughter of Maurice
Connell of Termons[?]. Married 8 May 1810 Mary nee Bligh, (widow of Lt John
Putland) daughter of William Bligh, deposed Governor of NSW (1806-1808) and
Captain of H.M. ship Bounty at time of famous mutiny at Tahiti in April 1789. O'Connell was knighted in 1834 and returned with his wife to Sydney in the Fairlie in December 1838 having been appointed to command the forces in NSW.
O'SHEA, *****
Commissioned: Lieutenant
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: c1821-1822.
OWEN, Edward (-1831)
Commissioned: Assistant Surgeon (25th Foot) 12 August 1806; Surgeon (4th West India Regiment) 28 May 1812; half-pay 1819; full-pay (73rd Regiment)[by exchange] 12 August 1819; half-pay 10 March 1825; full-pay (22nd Foot)[by exchange] 22 June 1826.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No.
Served in Ceylon: 1817-1821.
Died: in Jamaica 13 November 1831.
OWEN, Loftus
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 22 December 1799; Lieutenant
Major (73rd) 15 October 1806 [1 November 1802?]; Captain 16 March 1809.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: 1817-1821.
Arrived: on the Wellington 17 February 1817.
PALMER, John (1798-1839)
Commissioned: Lieutenant 23 September 1814 (without
purchase; vice Davis); transferred to 2nd Ceylon Rifles by 1822 [half-pay].
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: 1814-?
Arrived: Galle, on the transport General Hewitt 8 August 1814.
Additional: travelled to Ceylon as a volunteer from NSW and joined the
regiment when he was old enough to be eligible for a commission (ie. 16 years of
age). Later returned to New South Wales.
Died: 3 November 1839 [aged 42] at Westbourne, Sussex.
PIKE, John (c.1780-1863)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 20 June 1805;
Lieutenant 18 February 1807; Captain 10 August 1812; retired [by sale] 15 April 1824.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1809-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1821.
Arrived: Colombo, on the transport Earl Spencer 25 March 1814.
Died: 9 March 1863, at Tours (France).
POOK, George Anthony [also POOKE]
Commissioned: Ensign (West Kent Militia) [no date given]; Lieutenant 26 August
1809 from Militia; Ensign, (73rd) 9 May 1811; Lieutenant (73rd) 25 Nov 1813;
half-pay (Rifle Brigade) 28 Aug 1823; full-pay (39th Foot) 8 May 1828; half-pay
(61st Foot) 7 June 1833.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1812-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1821?
Arrived: Colombo, on the transport Earl Spencer 25 March 1814.
PRIMROSE, Philip (1803-1831)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 3 February 1820; Lieutenant (73rd) 18
September 1823.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No.
Served in Ceylon: c.1820-1821.
RAYMOND, William
Commissioned: Ensign (Derry Militia) [no date]; Lieutenant [no date]; Ensign
(73rd Regiment) [transferred from Militia] 26 October 1807; Lieutenant (73rd) 3
February 1809; Captain (73rd) 17 August 1820; half-pay on reduction 25 August
1821; full-pay (73rd) 8 April 1825; retired [by sale] 25 November 1828.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1810-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1821.
Arrived: Galle, on the transport General Hewitt 8 August 1814.
RENWICH/RENWICK, Henry Edward (1801-18**)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 2 December 1819; half-pay 24 January 1822; full-pay (2nd Foot) 21 June 1833; retired 9 March 1838.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: c.1820-21.
REYNOLDS, Thomas Matthew (c.1795-1864)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) (without purchase) 20 February 1812;
Lieutenant 10 March 1814 (without purchase); half-pay (12th Foot) 8 April 1824.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Fought at the Battle of Waterloo [1815], wounded, received 1 year's pay and a pension (1823-28).
Served in Ceylon: 1817-1821.
Arrived: Ceylon, on the Grant November 1817.
Died: 9 March 1864 at Brompton, Middlesex, aged 69.
RITCHIE, John (17**-1820)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 22 December
1804; Lieutenant (73rd) 4 December 1806; Captain (73rd) 7 July 1808.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1810-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1820.
Arrived: Galle, on the Windham 29 October 1814.
Departed: on the Alexander in April 1820 and died at sea on 20 May on the voyage home.
ROSKROW, James (c.1801-1820)
Commissioned: From Gentleman Cadet, RMC. Ensign, (73rd Regiment) 15 April 1819; dead and
succeeded 1 June 1820.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: c.1819-1820.
Died: 14 January 1820, at Trincomalee.
RUSSELL, William Lloyd (1800-18**)
Commissioned: Ensign (84th Foot) 17 January 1816; half-pay 26 February 1818; Full pay (73rd Regiment) 9 July 1818; Lieutenant (73rd) 28 February 1822; Captain half-pay unattached 20 October 1837; (28th Foot) 20 December 1839; retired [by sale] 20 January 1843. Adjutant, (73rd) 7 February 1822.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: c.1819-1821.
SHOOLBRAID, Thomas
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 15 May 1819 (vice Mauger
- deceased) - formerly Serjeant Major in the regiment.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: c.1819-1821
SKOTTOWE, Thomas Britiffe (1787-1820)
Commissioned: Ensign 19 February 1809;
Lieutenant 4 February 1808; Captain 1 August 1815. Served in NSW/ VDL: 1810-1815.
Served in Ceylon: 1815-1817.
Arrived: Colombo, on the H.M. Armed Brig Kangaroo 24 July 1815.
SMITH, Haddon (c.1777-1840)
Commissioned: Ensign 28 October 1795 (22nd Foot); Lieutenant 14
December 1796 (22nd); Captain 19 July 1807 (73rd); Brevet-Major 19 July 1821
(73rd); Brevet-Major 24 October 1822 (45th Foot); Brevet-Major 24 June 1823
(Ceylon Rifles); Major 12 June 1831 (unattached).
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1811-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1821.
Arrived: Colombo, on the transport Earl Spencer 25 March 1814.
SMITH, George Hankey (1802-186*)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 7 May 1818; Lieutenant (73rd) 7 February
1822; Brevet-Major 23 November 1841;Major 20 July 1849; Brevet Lieut. Colonel 11
November 1851; Lieut. Colonel (73rd) 21 May 1858; retired [by sale] 11 February
1862.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: 1819-1821.
Arrived: on the Pilot in 1819.
STEWART, Robert [also spelt STEUART] (c.1790-1849)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd
Regiment) 12 August 1812 [without purchase]; Lieutenant (73rd) 11 August 1814
[without purchase; replaced Philip Connor - dismissed] ; half-pay 1819; Captain
(91st Foot) 3 March 1825; half-pay (unattached) 19 January 1826.
Served in NSW/VDL: No
Fought at the Battle of Waterloo, 1815.
Served in Ceylon: 1816-1821.
Arrived: on the Alexander 5 October 1816.
Died: 5 November 1849.
TAYLOR, James (17**-1817)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 12 January 1809; Lieutenant (73rd) 10 November 1810; died and succeeded 1 January 1818.
Served in NSW/ VDL: 1810-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1817.
Arrived: Galle, on the transport Windham 29 October 1814.
Died: 29 December 1817, near Badulla (Sri Lanka).
THISTLETON, John Bennett (17**-1822)
Commissioned: 2nd Lieutenant (3rd Ceylon Regiment) 13 July 1810; 1st Lieutenant 13 March 1815; half-pay 25 May 1817; full-pay (73rd Regiment) 11 June 1818 (exchanged from 3rd Ceylon Regiment vice Eastwood who retired to half-pay of 3rd Ceylon Regiment); half-pay 25 December 1818; subsequently amended to 10 July 1820.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: c.1810-1820.
Died: 26 June 1822.
TRYDELL, Simon Harte (17**-1818)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 5 October 1815.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: 1818.
Arrived: Trincomalee, on the Surat Castle 18 May 1818.
Died: 8 November 1818, at Badulla (Sri Lanka).
VALLANCE, James (17**-1819)
Commissioned: Ensign (17th Foot) 14 February 1799; Lieutenant (17th Foot) 9
August 1799; Captain (18th Foot) 19 October 1804; (6th Garrison Battalion) 25
January 1810; (73rd Regiment) 17 January 1811; Brevet-Major (73rd) 4 June 1814;
[succeeded 24 February 1820].
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: 1817-1819.
Arrived: on the Wellington 17 February 1817.
Died: 7/8 August 1819, at Batticaloa (Sri Lanka).
WALKER, John Harding (1785-1848)
Commissioned: Assistant Surgeon 2 November 1809
(60th Foot); Surgeon 22 November 1815; half pay 25 March 1817: full-pay (73rd
Regiment - by exchange) 10 October 1817; half-pay (4th West India Regiment) 12
August 1819; 10 October 1822 (32nd Foot - by exchange); half-pay (de Meuron
Regiment) 31 July 1824; full pay (36th Foot) 15 January 1829; (92nd Foot) 23
August 1833; retired half-pay 30 December 1834.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No
Served in Ceylon: 1818-c1820.
Arrived: Trincomalee, on the Surat Castle 18 May 1818.
WENTWORTH, D'Arcy (1793-1861)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd Regiment) 21 February 1811[by purchase]; Lieutenant
(73rd) 9 August 1812; Captain (73rd) 7 April 1825 [without purchase]; (63rd Foot)
10 July 1828; Major (63rd) 3 November 1837; half-pay (unattached) 1 December
1837; retired (by sale) 27 December 1842.
Served in NSW/VDL: 1811-1814.
Served in Ceylon: 1814-1820.
Arrived: Colombo, on the Earl Spencer 25 March 1814.
Died: 21 July 1861, in Launceston (Tasmania).
WILLIAMSON, Ferdinand Thomas (c.1797-1834)
Commissioned: Ensign (14th Foot) 3 August 1815; (45th Foot) 16 May 1816;
Lieutenant (73rd Regiment) 3 February 1820 [by purchase]; Captain (73rd) 18
September 1823; half-pay [unattached] 21 May 1829.
Served in NSW/ VDL: No.
Served in Ceylon: 1820-1821.
WRIGHT, Thomas (1786-18**)
Commissioned: Ensign (73rd) 6 Feb 1806; Lieutenant 19 Feb 1807. Captain 25 Nov
1813; Dismissed and succeeded 10 Mar 1814; re-instated as Lieutenant dated 19 Feb
1807 (in 1817); Captain (73rd) 3 Nov 1818; to half-pay (95th Foot) 30 Dec 1819;
(45th Foot) 1 Aug 1843; Brevet-Major 10 Jan 1837; retired by sale 29 Dec 1843.
Served in NSW/VDL: 1810-1812
Served in Ceylon: 1817-18??
Arrived: on the Grant November 1817.
Additional: court-martialled 12-21 November 1812 in Sydney for absence from duty
when Officer of the Guard, and for 'conduct unbecoming the character of an Officer and a Gentleman'; sentence confirmed on 1 February 1814 in London.
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