THE BEOME-WALTON FAMILY. 
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It would be both tedious and unprofitable to discuss the many vari¬ 
ations of the train of artillery, pontoons, and stores, from embarkation 
under Royal Warrant of 8th July, 1746, until finally established under 
Royal Warrant of 22nd March, 1747/8—at which latter date the 
personnel and materiel were as subjoined : — 
“ Account of the Officers, Engineers, Ministers, Artificers, Ordnance 
and Habiliaments of War, of which the Train of Artillery consists.” 
Royal Warrant 22nd March, 1747-8:— 
A. —Order for marching R.A. Bois le Due, April 12th, 1747. N.S.— 
in handwriting of Lieutenant and Adjutant Joseph Brome—is 
in R.A. institution. MSS. No. 184. 
B. —Abstract of the officers and men of the R.A., as appointed to y e 
respective brigades of guns ; as also the proportions of ammuni¬ 
tion in y e waggons with them. 11th September, 1747. 
Bounds of 
Bounds of ditto for 
Ammunition. 
howitzers. 
Nature of Guns. 
Number of guns. 
"o 
l 
O 
£ 
s 
Q.F. round shott. 
j Grape shott. 
Total. 
| First shells. 
1 Unfixd shells. 
j Grape shott. 
Total. 
J Captains. 
j Lieutenants. 
Sergeants. 
5 
Mattrosses. 
12-prs. 
6 
80 
5 
28 
113 
2 
3 
6 
23 
37 
10 „ . 
3 
100 
13 
15 
128 
1 
1 
3 
6 
21 
9 „ . 
6 
75 
5 
30 
110 
2 
2 
6 
17 
37 
6 ,i .long 
8 
85 
5 
39 
129 
2 
4 
8 
16 
48 
G H ... short 
12 
10 
70 
80 
G 
12 
12 
60 
G n ... Saxon 
6 
25 
39 
64 
3 
5 
10 
20 
3 „ ... . 
5 
55 
7 
56 
118 
2 
3 
5 
25 
8-in. howitzers. 
2 
io 
30 
10 
50 
1 
3 
5 
2 
Eoyal mortars... 
6 
20 
20 
40 
Total . 
64 
395 
70 
277 
742 
30' 
50 
10 
90 
7 
22 
46 
94 
250 
C. —Five companies of the Royal Artillery, each consisting of 115 
officers and men, and 2 Captains Extraordinary, viz.:—• 
(1.) Brevet-Colonel Belford’s—ex-Dettingen, Fontenoy, Culloden—now 5 
Company Southern Division BA., at Bawal Pindi. 
(2.) Major Michelsen’s—ex-Dettingen, Pontenoy, Culloden—now 3 Company 
Western Division B.A., at Halifax, Nova Scotia. 
(3.) Capt. Williamson’s—ex-Dettingen, Ponteiioy, Culloden—now 5tli Field 
Battery BA., at Belgaum. 
(5 ) Capt' Chalmers’ } were broken up in the Netherlands, Dec. 1748. 
A brigade of 16 engineers, 1 draughtsman, and a company of miners of 42 men. 
STAFF. 
Lieut.-General of Ordnance (Duke of Montague) . 1 
Lieut.-Colonel and Comptroller (Belford) ... ... ... 1 
Major (Michelsen) ... ... . ... ... ... 1 
Adjutant (J. Brome) ... ... ... ... ... ... 1 
Quartermaster ... . 1 
Chaplain . 1 
Surgeon and Mate. 2 
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