68th REGIMENT.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XII, Issue 614, 7 May 1864, Page 1 (Supplement)

68th REGIMENT.

'KILLED. Sergeant James Hanner, accidentally, chest. WOUNDED. Private John Moffatt, very severely, right knee joint. Private William Sloane, severely, shell, right foot. Private Edward O'Neill, dangerously, left thi^h. Private Daniel Sweeney, very severely, shell, light knee. Private John Logan, very severely, right thigh and hand. Private Patric McDonald, dangerously, chest and left arm. Private William Johnson, severely, mouth and neck. Private William Ashton, dangerously, right elbow Private Henry Black, slightly, right elbow. Private John Platt, very severely, lett chest and neck. Private James Byenter, slightly , head. Private Hugh Toner, right fore-arm. Private John Baxter. Private William Watson, [slightly, shell, right hand. 43rd REGIMENT. KILLED. Captain Robert C. Glover, head. Captain C. R. Muir, tomahawk, right axilla. Captain R. T. F. Hamilton, head. Captain Edwin Utterton, neck. Lieutenant C. J. Langlands, chest. Sergeant-Major John Vance, chest. Private Philip Fitzgerald, head. Private Charles Lane, left side chest. Private S.Holbrash, chest. Private Henry Goff, left side chest. Private S. Hornby, left bieast. Private John Bradhurst, abdomen. Private Frederick Travers, tomahawk, right head and shoulder. Private Robert Phelan, head. WOUNDED. Lieutenant -Colonel Booth, dangerously, spine and right arm (reported to be since dead). Lieutenant T.G.E. Glover, severely, abdomen, not penetrating. Ensign William Clark, severely, right arm. Ensign S, P. T. Nicholl, slightly, scalp. Sergeant Edwin Young, severely, left jaw. Sergeant John Hurly very severely right fore-aim end shoulder. Sergeant Thomas Collier, very severely left arm. Sergeant John Cain, slightly, right fore arm. Corporal William Everett, left shoulder. Private William Biigraan, very severely, both arms. Private John Bryant, very severely, right shoulder. Private John Noble, severely .left shoulder,, Private James Warburton, severely, right side face Bugler Thomas Wright, severely left leg. Private George Clarke severely, light left shoulder. Private James Clarke, slightly. Private John Simmonds, severely, left arm above shoulder. Private John McFarlane, slightly, upper lip. Private John Livesay, very severely, right jaw and chin. Private Bernard Conroy, seveiely, left thigh. Private Michael Casey, dangerously, right temple. Private William Sargeant very severely, right thigh. Private Martin Walsh, very severely, right shin. Privbte George Robins, very severely .scalp and tight shoulder. Private Thomas Madden, very severely, chest. Private Jauies Audley, very severely, tomahawk, head. Hth REGIMENT. WOUNDED. Sergeant William Armstrong, severely, right thigh Private William Power, severely, both shoulders. Private John Ruth, slightly, left foot. Private Thomas Burdett t severely, right shoulder. 65th REGIMENT. WOUNDED. Private Halliwell, severely, left nates. 12th REGIMENT. WOUNDED. Private Andrew Mitchell, severely, right arm. Private Patrick Monaghan, severely, right thigh.

THE OFFICERS WHO FELL AT TAURANGA. Following our usual practice, we give a few particulars of the services of the officers who were killed at the engagement at Te Papa, on the 29th liltimo. John Fane Charles Hamilton, is a son, we believe, (says Byrne's "Naval Biography") of Colonel Hamilton and Charlotte, daughter of John Fane, Esq., of Wormsley, L.L.D., an eminent agriculturist, and many years M.P. for Oxford. His uncle, Rear-Admiral Francis William Fane, died 28th March, 1844. This officer entered the navy 28th August, 1835 j and in 1841-42, while attached to the Blonde, 42, Captain Thomas Bourchier, was present, either in the boats or on shore, at the taking of Amoy, the storming of Chinghae, the r attack on the Chinese entrenched camp on the height! of Segoan, the capture of Chapoo, and the engagement with the enemy's batteries at Woosung tl •He also, on the 10th March, 1842, served in the boats, under Captain George Goldsmith, at the destruction of ten fire vessels with which the Chinese had attempted to annihilate the British shipping and transports at then* anchorage off Chinghae. Having passed his examination 10th November, 1841, and been further employed as mate in the Warspito, 60, Captain Provo William

Parry Wallis, and the St. Viucent, 120, flag ship of Sir Charles Rowley, on the Lisbon and Portsmouth stations ; he was promoted to the rank of lieutenant, Bth March, 1844, and subsequently appointed, 24th May and Ist August, 184-1, to the America, 50, and Eacer, 16, Captains Hon. John Gordon and Archibald Eeed, both on the South American station. He left the latter vessel in the summer of 1846. He afterwards became senior lieutenant of the Leander, and was further promoted for his services while on the Naval Brigade at the siege of Sevastopol. On the 26th February, 1858, he received his post rank. Captain Hamilton wore several mementos of his gallantry, and the last and fatal act which distinguishes him as a gallant officer cannot be better described than in the words of our special correspondent: — "The General, who was in the advanced trench of his position, ordered up the supports almost immediately after the storming party rushed the breach ; and the second division of blue-jackets and the gallant 43rd, led by Captain Hamilton of the Esk, advanced with a ringing cheer to the support of tho forlorn hope. TLey arrived at a critical moment; the storming party exposed to a murderous fire on all sides, and from hidden assailants beneath, and without an officer to lead them, were wavering; part were outside the pa. Captain Hamilton sprang upon the parapet, and shouting ' follow me, men !' dashed into the fight. That moment was his last. He fell dead, pierced through the brain by a bullet, and many of his officers shared the same fate." Lieutenant Charles Hill, of HJI.S. Curacoa, was made a lieutenant on May 15, 1858, and it will be recollected (vas one of the few survivors from the wreck of H.M.S. Orpheus. He returned to England, and was appointed to the Curasoa. He was one of the officers in command of the Naval Brigade at the storming of Te Papa, and he was one of those who were found lying dead inside the pa — a good proof that they fell at the post of duty. His end is the more melancholy from his connection with the ill-fated Orpheus. Captain Eobert Coke Glover entered the army as an ensign in tho 43rd Kegiment, on the 18th January, 1850. He became lieutenant on the sth December, 1851, and he received his captaincy on the 30th January, 1857. He served -with the 51st Regiment throughout the Burmese war in 1852, for which he received a medal, and' he was on board tho East India Steam Company's steam frigate Ferooz during the naval action and destruction of the enemy's stockades on the Rangoon River, and he was present during the three succeeding days' operations in the vicinity and at the storming and capture of Rangoon. Captain Glover was one of the officers of the 4;ird who led the storming party up to the breach in the pa., and there met his death like a soldier. He was killed by a wound in the head. Captain Charles Reginal Mure entered the 43rd Regiment as an ensign on the 16th August, 1850; he obtained his lieutenancy on the 29th July, 1853, and hia captaincy on the Bth January, 1856. He served with tho 43rd Light Infantry in tho Kaffir war of 1851 and 1853, for which ho received a medal. He served also in the Crimea from the 29th July to the 29th September, 1855 as Aide-de-Camp to Major-General Markham. Ho received a medal and clasp for Sebastopol, sth class of the Medjidie, and Turkish Medal. Captain Robert Francis Hamilton entered the army on the 23rd January, 1852, when he became ensign in the 43rd Regiment. He was a lieutenant on the 13th April, 1855 ; and captain on the 31st July, 1860. He served with the 97th Regiment in Bengal, in suppressing the mutiny in 1857 aud 1858, and was present in the actions of Nusrutpore (as orderly officer to Colonel Ingram, and mentioned in despatches), Chanda, Ummeerpoore, and Sultanpore ; siege and capture of Lucknow, and storming of the Kaisa'Baghj operations in Bundlecund in 1859, including the pursuit to, night attack and surprise of the rebels on the Kalee Nuddee, for which he received a medal and clasp. Captain Edward Utterton entered the 23rd Regiment on the 30th April, 1855. Ho became lieutenant on the 10th September in the same year, and captain on the Bth October, 1861. He served at the siege of Sebastopol" in 1855, including the assault of the Redan, on the Bth September ; for which he received a medal and clasp, and Turkish medal. He served also in the Indian campaign of 1857-58, including the relief of Lucknow by Lord Clyde, defeat of the Gwalior Contingent at Cawnpore, affair of the Ramgunga, siege and capture of Lucknow (mentioned in despatches), and TransGogra operations when the rebels were driven from Oude into Nepaul ; and for which he received a medal and two clasps. Lieutenant Charles John Langlands became an ensign in the 43rd Regiment on the 19th May, 1861 ; and had, therefore, been hardly three years in the army. He was one of the officers who were found lying dead inside the pa, and he met his death like the other gallant men whose names are recorded as having fallen in this truly unfortunate engagement. THE WOUNDED. Commander Edward Hay has only recently arrived from England to supply the place of Captain Sullivan, of the Harrier, who, being promoted, returned home. He served as midshipman on board tho Havannah when that vessel was on this station in 1849, in command of Captain Elphinstone Erskine. In 1855 he served as mate of the Agamemnon, was presented with a medal and foreign decoration, and received his commission in the Harrier, which vessel is under orders to proceed home, in November last year. Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Jackson Parkin Booth 1 entered, the army, aa an ensign, on the 11th June,

1847. He became a lieutenant on tho 9th August, j 1850 ; a captain on the 2 ( Jth July, 1833 ; a major 1 on the 3rd April, 1857 ; and lieutenant-colonel on the 11th February, 1862. He served with tho ■13rd in tho Kaffir war of 1851-53, for which he received a medal. He wa^ in command of the detachment of the 43rd which arrived by tho Lady Jocelyn, and, until embarking for Taurauga, was in command of some of the military posts between this and Waikato.^-' Daily Southern Cross,' May 3.