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THE MINDEN BATTERIES K.A. 
Communicated by dibection op the 
DEPUTY-AD JUT ANT-GENERAL, R.A. 
The operation of R.O. 85/1891 having brought to light the fact of four 
batteries and companies claiming to be survivors of the three companies 
of Royal Artillery engaged in the battle of Minden on 1st August, 
1759, the D.A.G. gave directions for these claims to be investigated by 
a regimental court of enquiry, in view to determining to whom rightly 
belong the record of this distinguished artillery a War Service,” with 
the following result:— 
The original muster rolls and pay lists of the Royal Artillery for 
August 1759 show that the three companies at Hill Camp, Minden, on 
1st August, were then designated : 
1st 
Battalion, 
R.A. 
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“ Captain Wm. Phillips’s Company.” 
( G 
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(Lie 
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‘ Captain Samuel Cleaveland’s Company.” 
“ Captain Forbes Macbean’s Company.” 
The 2nd Captain 
which was Capt.- 
Lieut. Foy. 
Commanded by 
Captain - Lieutenant 
Duncan Drummond 
Captain Cleaveland 
being “ on com¬ 
mand” elsewhere. 
The 2nd Captain 
j of which was Capt.- 
j Lieutenant Griffiths 
C Williams. 
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and subsequent rolls, pay lists, &c., and regimental orders show that 
these companies have undergone changes of designation as follow :— 
(1) 1st August, 1759. 
12th July, 1763. 
Sept", 1764. 
„ 1779. 
1786. 
1795. 
1798. 
Jan., 1805. 
Dec., 1805. 
Jan., 1806. 
1814. 
1815. 
1817. 
Captain Wm. Phillips’s Company, 1st Battalion. 
„ „ „ „ 3rd Battalion. 
E. Foy’s 
J. Woods’s „ 
R. Dysart’s ,, 
W. H. Walker’s „ 
Geo. Ramsay’s „ 
Chas. Younghusband’s Company 
Wm. Millar’s ,, 
Percy Drummond’s „ 
Fred. Gordon’s „ 
Chas. Egan’s „ 
Cyprian Bridge’s „ 
3rd 
Battalion. 
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