Richard Plantagenet
Duke of Buckingham & Chandos.
Robert Wilcox, Captain Royal Navy.
John Smith, Sergeant Rl Sappers and Miners.
[248]. Pasley’s ‘Narrative of Operations with the New Pontoons,’ 1824. Sir James Colleton’s ‘Buoy Pontoons.’
[249]. Shorter was afterwards stationed for fourteen years at Corfu. For seven of his twenty-seven years' service he filled the office of quartermaster-sergeant, and was honoured with an annuity and medal for his meritorious conduct. He retired from the sappers on being appointed a Yeoman of the Queen’s Guard, and was the first non-commissioned officer of the corps who received a nomination to that ancient company. While he was all that could be desired in his corps in respect to efficiency and intelligence, in private life he was a thorough humourist, and the most simple incident, with scarcely an element for merriment in it, became by his droll inventorial recital, a subject of the richest amusement.
[250]. ‘Report Army and Ordnance Expenditure,’ Minutes of Evidence, p. 617. ‘Naval and Military Gazette.’ Pasley’s ‘Mil. Policy,’ Introd., p. 37, 4th edit.
[251]. ‘Prof. Papers,’ iv.; preface, pp. xiv. xvii.
[252]. ‘Morning Herald,’ June 5, 1826.
[253]. On the removal of the fifteenth company to Canada in March, the Portsmouth station was without a company until November, 1827, when the eleventh company was sent there from Chatham.