12th regiment foot (2 risultati)

See E. A. H. Webb, 'History of the 12th (The Suffolk) Regiment, 1685-1913' (1914). Picton was the uncle of 'the illustrious Picton', Lt-Gen. Sir Thomas Picton (1758-1815), who was his sole executor and residuary legatee. The year of Picton's birth is variously reported, but the Monthly Magazine, December 1811, is among several sources reporting his death in Bond Street at the age of 87. 4pp, folio. Bifolium. In fair condition, aged and with closed tears along the three fold lines. Endorsed on reverse of second leaf: '12th. Regiment of Infantry | General William Picton | to J: N & B: Pearse | Assignment Offreckonings | From 6th July 1800: | To 5th July 1801 | For £3825: 5s: 4d'. Beneath this, in another hand: 'Entered at the Board of General Officers | J: Johnson' and in a third hand: 'Entd. In the Office of the Paymr. General. | Henry Harmood.' The page also carries a statement of the accounts, with four entries, with the total of £3825 5s 4d over '365 days'. The document proper is on the recto of the first leaf, written out in a secretarial hand, and signed at the foot by 'William Picton.' with his chipped seal in red wax at bottom right. Witnessed by 'J. C. Pleydell' and 'Alexr Cumming'. It is addressed by 'William Picton General in the Army, & Colonel of the 12th Regiment of Foot', to 'Messrs: John, Nicholas, & Brice Pearse, of Lothbury, in the City of London' (according to the article on John Pearse in the History of Parliament, his firm 'operated as Blackwell Hall factors at 41 Lothbury and as army clothiers at 98 Long Acre'). The document is intended for 'the Right Honourable Thomas Steele & George Canning, joint Paymaster's [sic] general of His Majesty's Forces'. Giving the total of 'all the Offreckonings [sic] of all and Singular, the Serjeants, Corporals, Drummers, Fifers, and Private Men, of, and belonging to the 12th Regiment of Foot, under my Command'. On the reverse of the first leaf: 'Entered in the Office for Inditing the Public Accounts the 3d December 1801 | Thos Gibbes'. Covering the whole of the recto of the second leaf is a communication, dated 18 November 1801, 'To | The Paymaster General of His Majestys Forces, or the Paymaster General for the time being', signed by three 'General Officers of the Clothing Board': 'Wm. Fawcett Genl. | G: Hotham Lt Genl. | D. Dundas [Lt?]'. (Fawcett (1727-1804) had been Adjutant-General to the Forces, and at the time of writing was Governor of Chelsea Hospital. After a distinguished military career Dundas (1735-1820) would serve as s Commander-in-Chief of the Forces from 1809 to 1811. Lt-Col. George Hotham was elder brother of the distinguished admiral Sir William Hotham (later Lord Hotham).) The letter states that, further to a letter from the Secretary at War, the Clothing Board have 'passed and allowed' the offreckonings, 'without requiring the usual Certificate of the View of the said Clothing'. …

Wrench was the son of a clergyman, and well educated and well connected (being presented to the Prince of Wales and staying at Chatsworth in his old age). His obituary in the British Medical Journal (27 April 1912), describes how, after service in the Crimea, 'he was transferred to the 4th Lancers, went to Madras with that regiment in the following month, and served with it during the whole of the Indian Mutiny. For his services in India he received the Indian medal and clasp for Central India. He returned to England in 1860, and married in 1861 his cousin, the daughter of Mr. William Kirke, of Markham Hall, Nottinghamshire'. The four items in the present collection are all in good condition, on lightly-aged paper. The three duplicates - all closely and neatly written in a vivid and informative style - are among ones produced by Wrench for circulation within his family, there being copies in the collection of Wrench papers in Nottingham University Library. They comprise two letters and a narrative account. The typescript, by an unnamed individual, is not present at Nottingham. None of the four items is in the Imperial War Museum catalogue. ONE: Duplicate of Autograph Letter by Wrench ('Edwd M Wrench M.V.O - F.R.C.S. late asst Sugeon 12 R Lancers'). Dated at beginning 23 December 1907, and at end 'Christmas 1907 - Park Lodge Baslow Derbyshire'. The letter describes the 'Jubilee commemoration' at the Royal Albert Hall, and is headed 'My last Parade'. It begins: 'It was indeed well done (The dinner to the surviving Veterans who fought in the Indian Mutiny campaign in 1857, given by the proprietors of the London Daily Telegraph) a procession of heart stirring episodes from the Inspection by F.M. Lord Roberts on the steps of the Albert Memorial (where I found private Meredith of the 24th who was with me in the trenches at the assault on the Redan Sebastopol June 18 1855) to the surging chorus by the thousands in the Albert Hall of Auld Lang Syne, near the end of what Lord Curzon in his thrilling speech said was a "ceremony" rather than a festival, a speech that made the tears tremble on my eyelids. They overflowed at the solemn sounding of the "last post" recalling to my memory in the words of the poet, O Hara, a charge of the 12th Lancers I rode with at the battle of Banda [.]'. He names others present, including 'Col Robertson [.] he was still the bravest of the brave, for though 86, he was in velvet Levee dress, silk stockings & pumps, without a great coat. (He told me he was a teetotaller) his picturesque appearance attracted Lord Roberts eye, and drew a heavy fire on us, not of rifles, but of snap shot cameras, the result of which has been my portrait in such good company, scattered by the hundreds of thousands in The Daily Mirror of Decr 24 [.] I have looked down the barrel of a loaded musket, near enough to see a Sepoys yellow eyes taking aim at the butt end and ridden with cannon balls hopping over my head like balls in a cricket ground, I cannot compare my perils during the Sepoy Mutiny to many others of the Kirke family'. 2pp., 8vo. TWO: Duplicate of Autograph Letter by Wrench ('Ed M Wrench'). Dated at beginning 'Park Lodge Baslow Aug 1909' and at end 13 September 1909. 3pp., 8vo. The letter begins: 'Having recently discovered that General W A Franks [Major-General William Astell Franks (1838-1929)] now living at Northland Road Southampton, was present when Uncle Henry Kirke died when fleeing from the Mutineers of his Regt. 12 BNI in 1857, I took the liberty of writing to him, he very kindly responded to my enquiries & I feel sure the information he has afforded will be interesting, adding much to our scanty knowledge of that terrible time.' There follow extended transcriptions from Franks's letters: '[.] I saw him the day he died [.] he was on his horse but rolling about on it [.] he looked at me with a vacant stare & was deadly pale. I could see he was dying. Shortly after he fell off his horse, he was the only one of o. …