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Newfoundland, January'1747 ; remained in Newfoundland in Captain T. Ord’s 
Company until end of January 1751; to England on private leave, 1751 and 
returned to Newfoundland in January 1753 ; returned to England, on leave, in 
January 1759; promoted Capt.-Lieutenant, 1st January, 1759, in Captain Forbes 
Macbean’s Company, R.A., 1st Battalion, and proceeded to Marienveldt, Germany. 
Present in the battles of Bergen, 13th April, 1759 ; Minden, 1st August, 
1759 and personally pointed in action the four 14-prs. depicted in all con¬ 
temporary engravings of the battle; returned to England in January 1760 for 
the court-martial on Lord George Sackville; promoted Captain on 12th February, 
1760 to the company of Miners at Louisbourg, but remained in England (for the 
court-martial). 
He was present at the siege of Belleisle, 1761. 
Proceeded to America, on particular service, in command of a detachment; 
returned to Woolwich, April 1763. 
Returned to America in 1776 ; prisoner of war with the rebels from November 
1777 to December 1778 ; returned to England in January 1 1779 ; promoted 
Major, 21st March, 1780 ; Lieut.-Colonel, 9th January, 1782 ; Colonel, 1st 
December, 1782. 
He commanded the Royal Artillery at part of the siege of Gibraltar, 1782-83. 
Colonel-Commandant and commanded the garrison of Woolwich from 20th 
October, 1783 to February 1786 ; died at Woolwich, 18th March, 1790. 
Married in Newfoundland a daughter of Dr. Jno. Monier, of a Hugenot 
family, who was in medical charge of the troops in Newfoundland. 
His younger brother, George Williams, joined at W r oolwich on 1st July, 1761, 
as a Cadet in the R.A. but did not do duty with the Cadet Company, being at 
once embarked for America to join the elder brother, Griffith Williams. 
Stoya! Artillery Graves in the Crimea. 
It may not be generally known that all the then remaining momuments in the 
Crimea were collected from the 158 cemeteries, in 1880, and re-erected in the 
cemetery on Cathcart’s Hill. 
There, Captain Alexander Murray (late Gordon Highlanders) makes it his duty 
to see to their preservation and repair. 
In a letter I recently received from him, he says “ All the artillery momuments 
are in good order.” This may be of interest to the Regiment, and particularly 
so to the senior officers. 
It may be fairly said that to Captain Murray, the army owes a; debt of 
gratitude for the interest and care he bestows on Cathcart’s Hill. 
F.M.L. 
R,A. GAMES’ FUND. 
To'the Hon. Sec. R.A. Games 3 Fund. 
Dear Sir, 
In your report on the R.A. Games’ Fund, you state that the original 
fund was started about 1874. The facts are these :— 
In 1878, when I was Captain of the Riding Establishment, with the sanction 
of General R. P. Radcliff, (then D.A.G.), I formed a working committee 
to organize a Games’ Fund. The names of the members of the committee I 
forget, but General King and Major Ward Ashton were on it, and the former 
was my strongest supporter. I acted as secretary and k w s commissioned to 
