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THE BROME-WALTON FAMILY. 
and families ? The subject has never been attempted in any regimental 
history; and the theme would involve a special chapter, starting from 
the period of Henry VIII. and the dissolution of the monasteries. 
The whole subject would constitute a Treatise on “ Military Sociology/ 5 
fraught with the most delicate topics; but the particular ee Fund for 
Superannuation 55 —referred to in the Warrant—formed the origin of 
.Retired Full Pay to Army Officers, under the following circumstances:— 
In December, 1714, the officers disbanded after the Spanish Succes¬ 
sion War complained direct to Parliament that while they were sent 
adrift on Saif Pay after their services in the war, other officers who 
had never quitted England continued to serve (on Full Pay). Parlia¬ 
ment resolved not to receive Petitions from officers except through His 
Majesty; but voted a subsidy, to be renewed annually, to the Crown, 
out of which to provide Full Pay retirement to such officers as had 
distinguished themselves in the wars. 1 2 
The full significance of the selection of Captain Charles Brome for 
this distinction will now be manifest. His war services had been :— 
Siege and Capture. 
Chapter I. 
{under Borgard.) 
Chapter II. 
Chapter III. 
'"1702. Fort St. Catherine, Cadiz. 
„ „ Malaga. 
„ ,, Duran, Yigo. 
1705. Town and Castle of Valencia d’Alcantra. 
1706. Ciudad Rodrigo. 
,, Alcantra. 
1708. Minorca. 
^1715. Suppression of Scottish Rebellion. 3 
1745. Rattle of Fontenoy. {Capt. Lieut.) 
C 1746. Expedition against Port L’Orient.“ Captain 
< 1747/8. Battles of Val, and Rocroux. > Extraordinary,” 
( „ Sieges of Bergen, and Maestricht. ) i.e., Staff Captain. 
Chapter IF. 
1755. Siege and Capture of Beau-Sejour; Commandant B.A. 
Died ahout 1762. 
We cannot see Captain Brome 5 s face in any Portrait, and can only 
touch his “ Dead Hand 55 in the signatures to R.A. Pay Lists; but 
the regimental 
epitaph of Bor¬ 
gard 5 s first pupil 
in 1698 is written 
in the last mes¬ 
sage bequeathed 
despatch of 12th April, 1750, to the Governor of Nova Scotia :— 
“ Captain Chas. Brome, R.A., has embarked for the New World; 
And I recommend him as A Very Good Officer.” 
to the Royal Ar¬ 
tillery by General 
Borgard, the 
father of the 
regiment, in the 
veteran General's 
1 Ordnance Warrants Book, 20/1/1715, p. 30. 
2 This item was undetermined in Chapter I., hut has since been decided by discovery of Lord 
Dartmouth’s letter of 13th April, 1713, to the Board of Ordnance. (Warrants Book, p. 38). 
