In June Holcombe’s and Thompson’s companies were sent round by sea to the east coast of Spain, and there joined the Anglo-Sicilian expedition of General Maitland, with which they continued to serve.

C.

At the beginning of 1812, there were present at Cadiz, Cartagena, and Tarifa, doing garrison duty, the following companies under Lieut.-Col. A. Duncan:—

Batalion.Under Command ofArrived in
Peninsula.		Designation
in 1914.
2ndCaptain P. Campbell[812]March 1810[813]62 Company, R.G.A.
5thCaptain H. OwenJanuary 181060 Company, R.G.A.
9thCaptain P. J. HughesJanuary 1810Reduced in 1819.
10thCaptain W. RobertsMarch 181063 Company, R.G.A.
10thMajor A. DicksonApril 181021 Company, R.G.A.
10thCaptain W. ShenleyApril 181011 Company, R.G.A.

Of these Hughes’s company was detached to Tarifa, and took a brilliant part in its defence in Dec. 1811-Jan. 1812. The rest were in Cadiz and the Isle of Leon. Owen’s and Dickson’s companies (the latter until July 1812 being commanded by Captain R. H. Birch, whose own company of the 10th battalion was at Gibraltar, as Dickson, with the rank of Major, was serving with the Portuguese Army) marched from Cadiz to Madrid with Skerrett’s column at the end of September 1812, and in October joined Wellington’s main field army. Hughes’s, Roberts’s, and Shenley’s companies remained in garrison at Cadiz, and Campbell’s was divided between Cartagena and Tarifa.

D.

At Alicante, under General Maitland, there were present during the later months of the year not only Holcombe’s and Thompson’s companies, which had come round from Lisbon, but also the two following British companies from Sicily:—

Batalion.Under Command ofArrived in
Peninsula.		Designation
in 1914.
8thCaptain J. S. WilliamsonAugust 181240th Battery, R.F.A.
4thCaptain R. G. LacyDecember 181225 Company, R.G.A.

III. KING’S GERMAN LEGION ARTILLERY

Of the three companies of the Legionary Artillery in the Peninsula only one (No. 4) was with the field army, that of Captain F. Sympher, attached to the 4th Division. This unit was present at the siege of Ciudad Rodrigo, and also at the battle of Salamanca.