By W. W. Ravenhill, Esq. ’ 207 
. Ditto, June 19th, 1846 :— 
‘‘ Brevet. To be Majors in the Army: Captains William Matthias, Sixty- 
Second Foot, (and seven others from different regiments.)” 
Captain Matthias had been mentioned in despatch of Sir H. G. 
Smith, giving a report of the battle of Aliwal, dated Camp Feroze- 
pore, February 2nd, 1846 :— 
“Captain Matthias, of H.M. Sixty-Second, in charge of a detachment of con- 
valescents, of Her Majesty’s Service, and Lieut Hibbert, of the Hon. Company's 
Sappers and Miners, readily performed the duty assigned to them of protecting 
the 8-inch howitzers.” 
Ditto, June 23rd, 1846 :— 
‘The following further list of uon-commisioned officers and privates of the 
Queen’s Army killed in the recent battles on tha Sutlej, or who have subse- 
quently died of wounds received in those actions. 
Sixty-Second Foot. 
Amor, George Daniels, Henry Orrell, Edward 
_ Askew, John Farmer, Peter Runyan, Thomas 
_ Aldridge, William Hardman, Edmund Redmond, Thomas 
Batsor, Edward Irwin, David Roberts, John 
Britt, Thomas King, Joseph Ryan, Patrick 
Croston, William Lannon, Thomas Sarson, G. 
_ Dee, Thomas Lonnon, Edward Stammers, Samuel 
~ Down, Alexander Maxwell, John Ward, Thomas 
Dowd, Michael Newman, Thomas _ Wright, John 
© Sobraon ” added to the colours of the Wiltshire Regiment. 
_ The remnant of the Wiltshire regiment, some months later, started 
for the south, to meet a new danger. The following extract from 
_ adespatch of Lord Gough’s (March 20th, 1847), best tells the tale :— 
* ‘Between twelve and one o’clock, p.m., on the 2nd March, 1847, the boat in” 
which Lieutenant-Colonel Shortt, commanding the Sixty-Second Regiment, was 
proceeding down the Ganges to Calcutta, suddenly burst into flames, and the. 
__ whole of the property on board belonging to the Lieutenant-Colorel, Captains 
_ Olpherts and Graves, was destroyed, together with the cotours of the Srxrr- 
Second, which were fastened to the inside of the thatch roof of the boat. All. 
efforts to preserve the colours proved unavailing in consequence of the inflammable 
"nature of the material to which they were attached and the violence of the gale 
at the time of the occurrence. The accident was supposed to have originated ‘ 
from some fire having been carelessly dropped on the roof by one of the crew,_ 
and only a few seconds elapsed from the alarm being given before the boat was 
_ enveloped in flames, leaving the officers barely time to jump overboard.” * 
- # W. O. Papers, 
