History of the Royal Sappers and Miners, Volume 1 (of 2) / From the Formation of the Corps in March 1712 to the date when its designation was changed to that of Royal Engineers

by T. W. J. Connolly

[504]. Debates in the ‘Times,’ March 6, 1847[1847]

[505]. About twenty of these curious arms, all of the spear form, but grotesquely varied, are in the model-room of the royal engineer establishment at Chatham.

[506]. Both died in China; the former on the 15th August, and the latter 15th September, 1847.

[507]. Discharged 8th October, 1850. He was then a sergeant. See ante, Syria, 1841.

[508]. Died at Hong-Kong, 15th August, 1848.

[509]. Now colour-sergeant in the corps stationed at New Zealand.

[510]. Discharged October, 1848, and is now employed with advantage as a draughtsman on the Ordnance Survey.

[511]. The ‘Times,’ 8th March, 1847.

[512]. Sir John Richardson’s ‘Journal of a Boat Voyage through Rupert’s Land and the Arctic,’ edit. 1851, p. 43.

[513]. Ibid., p. 44.