Entry Book of General Orders. Certified extracts from General Orders and Memoranda...

WO 28/276

1841 July 2-1846 July 29

Entry Book of General Orders.

• Certified extracts from General Orders and Memoranda issued at Kingston, Jamaica. Also bound into this volume are two sets of General Orders for the Ionian Islands covering the months of September and October 1845. These were issued at Corfu [see also WO 28/275].
• The General Orders cover the following subjects: African recruits from Sierra Leone, appointments, arms and ammunition, arrangements for the advertising, receiving and deciding of tenders, attachments, boards of enquiry, boards of survey, chaplains, clothing, commissariat, contract prices for the conveyance of officers between stations, courts martial, courts of enquiry, deaths, deserters and rewards for their apprehension, discharge, distribution of troops, duties, duty on the west coast of Africa, establishment of the rank of Staff Surgeon within the army, formation of a Company of African Artillerists, horses, inspections by the Major General Commanding, invalids, leave, medical including deployment of surgeons, pay and allowances, pensioners, promotions, rations, reliefs, retirement, returns, servants, ships' passages to England and elsewhere, stores, supplies, transfers, transport, troop movements and widows, women, children and orphans.
• There are a high number of instances of death and desertion and also a higher than normal number of names of rank and file soldiers in the orders. Reference is made to black pensioners and black servants.
• Corps serving in this command at the time included: Royal Artillery, 38th Regiment, 48th Regiment, 60th Regiment, 68th Regiment, 77th Regiment, 82nd Regiment, 1st West India Regiment, 2nd West India Regiment, 3rd West India Regiment, Royal Engineers, African Artillery, Ordnance Department and the Commissariat.
• Places at which units were stationed in Jamaica included: Apostles Battery, Botanic Garden, Falmouth, Fort Augusta, Hopewell, Kingston, Lucea, Maroon Town, Middleton, Montego Bay, Mount Industry, Newcastle, Port Antonio, Port Royal, Prospect Hill, Rock Fort, Spanish Town, Stony Hill and Up Park.
• In addition to Jamaica the orders also refer to Antigua, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Cape Coast (Africa), Gambia, Honduras, Nassau, New Providence and Sierra Leone.
• The majority of the extracts were signed by A Carden, [Captain Andrew Carden, 41st and 60th Regiments], Assistant Military Secretary, or Cavendish Boyle [Lieutenant Cavendish Spencer Boyle, 48th Regiment], Acting Assistant Military Secretary.

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