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General Shrapnel died in 1842. He did not retire from active 
service, till well nigh ha/f a century had elapsed since he obtained 
his first commission. His remains were interred in a vault in the 
Chancel of the Parish Church. 
Masor-Generat Busy, K.H. 
He was the youngest son of Thomas Bush, Esq. of this town, 
who for many years was an active magistrate of Wiltshire, and 
served the office of High Sheriff of the county in the year 1804. 
He entered the army in 1808, as Cornet in the 2nd Dragoon 
Guards, in which regiment he rose to the rank of Captain, and 
served with his corps in the Walcheren Expedition in 1809. At 
a later period he exchanged into the 21st Light Dragoons. He 
went with this regiment to the Cape of Good Hope, and was 
detached with his troop several months on the Caffir frontier. 
Having terminated this service, which was one of constant peril 
from the treacherous and stealthy incursions of the natives, he 
sailed with the 21st for India, and, after attaining the rank of 
Major unattached, he exchanged to the 99th, and took the com- 
mand of the Depét in Ireland. In course of time he was appointed 
Lieut.-Colonel of the 1st West India Regiment, and remained 
several years in the unhealthy stations of St. Lucia, Demerara, 
and Trinidad. 
At the time Colonel Bush took the command of his regiment in 
the West Indies, every effort was being made by the British Go- 
vernment to suppress the slave trade. Several vessels laden with 
native Africans were captured by the British cruisers, and the 
men, after having been declared free, were permitted to enlist 
voluntarily in West India regiments and the African corps. Up- 
wards of 200 of these native Africans enlisted in Colonel Bush’s 
regiment, at that time (1837) stationed at St. Joseph’s, Demerara. 
The old soldiers were soon afterwards withdrawn to other islands, 
and these recruits were the only disposable force to take the requi- 
site guard. Led on by one of their number, a man of gigantic 
stature, who had been a chief in Africa and had great influence 
over them, these recruits unexpectedly broke out into open revolt, 
