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THE BROME-WALTON FAMILY. 
While the British Army and Navy were on the eve of quitting 
Halifax for the siege and capture of Louisbourg; armaments and artil¬ 
lery embarking for our African and East India possessions; and the 
land army being organised for Germany, the “Great Statesman” 
found time to organise yet another conjoint naval and military force to 
prosecute his tenacious purpose of destroying French harbours by an 
and e st° u cas ex P e dition against Cherbourg, under General Bligh, which, from an 
‘ artillery and bomb service point of view, forms an epic for regimental 
history; from which, however, we must tear ourselves away, as it does 
not bear directly or indirectly upon the history of the Brome-Walton 
family R.A. 
Germany. 
The British army of 10,000 thrown into Emden on 1st August, 1758 
—to co-operate with the 68,000 Hanoverians, Hessians, and Prussians, 
under Prince Ferdinand (cousin of George II.)—was commanded in 
chief by Charles, Duke of Marlborough (Master-General of the Ord¬ 
nance), with Captain James Pattison as his artillery A.-D.-C.; the 
second in command being Major-General Lord George Sackville, with 
Captain Joseph Brome as artillery A.-D.-C. 
With 10,000 troops in Ireland, 2000 in Scotland, 8000 on active 
service in America, 7000 under General Bligh operating against Cher¬ 
bourg and French ports, 3000 in East Indian and African warfare, and 
10,000 now despatched to Emden, 40,000 effective fighting men and 
60,000 afloat in war-ships were, in 1758, thus being maintained out of 
a British population of less than 8,000,000 males; and to recruit this 
force a short service Act was passed, limiting service to three years, or 
until end of the war, with clear bounty of £3 for army and £2 for 
navy : while the artillery standard, which had been established in 1749, 
for the first time, at 5 feet 9 inches, under 25 years of age, neither 
Scotch nor Irish, was now reduced to 5 feet 6 inches for gunners and 
matrosses, age, 17 to 30, 1 2 British or Irish subjects. 
The British forces in Emden consisted of the six famous regiments 
of Infantry, viz.:— 
1. Napier’s, or 12th Regiment, now The Suffolk Regiment. 
2. Kingsley’s, n 20th n » The Lancashire Fusiliers. 
3. Huske’s, „ Welsh Fusileers, „ Royal Welsh Fusileers. 
4. (Earl) Home’s fj 25th Regiment, » King’s Own Scottish Borderers. 
5. Stuart’s ir 37th • „ ,j The Hampshire Regiment. 
6. Brudenel’s n 51st » » King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. 
to which were soon added “ The British Grenadiers.” 
Cavalry, five regiments of Dragoons, viz.:—Horse Guards Blue, 
Bland's, Howard's, Inniskillins, Mordaunt's—to which were soon added 
the North British Dragoons (Scots Greys), and “The Horse Grena¬ 
diers.'' This was the first instance of active service of British light 
cavalry and of light infantry. 3 
The Royal Artillery was composed of one and a half companies, under 
1 London Gazettes , 1758, and No. 9920 of H59. “ Ordnance Warrant,” 1749. “ History of 
the Royal Artillery,” Vol. I., p. 132, “ Cieayeland MSS.” 21 /2/1752. An enactment in same terms 
had been instituted during the wars of the great Marlborough, e£ Military Antiquities” (Grose), 
Vol. I., p. 97. 
2 “ Annual Register,” 1759, p. 7. 
