206 “ The Wiltshire Regiment for Wiltshire.” 
coolness and suceess, as a reserve to Brigadiers Stacey and Wilkin- 
son’s Brigades;” and in acknowledging the services of those who 
commanded regiments, troops, and battalions, etc., in the action, he 
mentions Major Shortt, of the Sixty-Second Foot. 
Great valour was shewn by a little Ghoorka soldier, who, lifted 
upon the shoulders of a man of the Tenth, was the first to enter the 
enemy’scamp. The Sikhs lost about ten thousand men. Total British 
loss, two thousand three hundred and eighty-three. European 
officers, thirteen killed, including Major-General Sir R. Dick, who 
had served in the Peninsula and at Waterloo. One hundred and 
one wounded. : 
‘“¢ Sixty-Second Regiment, in 3rd Infantry Division. Lieutenant W. T. Bart- 
ley, killed. Lieutenant R. W. Haviland, wounded severely. One European 
officer and three rank and file killed, and three sergeants and forty rank and 
file wounded.” [General Sir H. Gough’s despatch, London Gazette, extra- 
ordinary, 1st April, 1846.] 
Five days after the Sikhs sued for peace. 
Afterwards came the distribution of the honours for the successes 
of the Sikh campaign. Sir H. Hardinge a Viscount. Sir Hugh 
Gough a Baron. Sir Henry G. Smith, G.C.B., &c. 
London Gazette, 
Downing Street, April 3rd, 1846. 
The Queen has been pleased to appoint the following officers to be Companions 
of the Most Honourable Military Order of the Bath : Colonel Thomas Reed, 
62nd Foot; Colonel The Honourable Thomas Ashburnham, Sixty-Second Foot ; 
and nine others, including Captain Hope, of H.M. Frigate Firebrand.” 
General Order of Governor General, February 23rd, 1846 :— 
‘‘Camp Lahore twelve month’s batta.” 
1846. London Gazette, May 8th, p. 1683 :— 
How some of the vacant commissions were filled :— 
‘‘Sixty-Second Foot. Major George Sheaffe Montezambert, from Forty-first 
Foot, to be Major, vice Astier, who exchanges. Dated May 8th, 1846, Ensign 
John McKay M’ Kensie, from Fifty-Third Foot, to be Lieutenant, without 
purchase, vice Bartley, killed in action. Dated 11th February, 1846,” 
Ditto, June 9th, p. 21389 :— 
‘‘Sixty-Second Foot. Ensign John Richard Sherlock Fitzgerald, from 
Thirty--Ninth Foot, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Richards, deceased. 
Dated 11th February, 1846.” 
