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ARTILLERY SERVICE UNEER “ JOHN COME ANY.” 
The establishment of a Company as now settled was:— 
1 Captain. 
1 Captain-Lieutenant. 
3 Lieutenants. 
3 Lieut.-Fireworkers. 
6 Sergeants. 
6 Corporals. 
3 Drummers. 
8 Bombardiers. 
24 Gunners. 
53 Matrosses. 
Total 8 Officers and 100 N.C.O/s and men. 
1785 . 
1786 . 
In 1785 , the designation of the Companies, was again 
changed. 
On the 30 th January 1786 , it was resolved in Council to 
incorporate the two battalions of Artillery, into one of ten 
companies ; the establishment of officers and N.C.O/s however was 
to remain unaltered until vacancies and casualties had reduced it to 
the necessary numbers. 
In making these arrangements, the original numbering was re¬ 
stored, it turned out however, that as was the case in 1779 , the Home 
authorities had entered upon the subject of organization, at the same 
time as the Indian, and in consequence, the above arrangement was 
hardly completed, when in May 1786 , distinct orders for the reorgan¬ 
ization of the whole army were received from Home. Accordingly 
we find, that the Minutes of Council dated the 2nd of June, direct 
the formation of the Artillery into a regiment of three battalions, 
each composed of five companies ; each company to consist of 1 Captain, 
2 Lieutenants, 2 Lieut.-Fireworkers, 4 Sergeants, 4 Corporals, 8 Gun¬ 
ners, 2 Drummers and 56 Matrosses. Two companies of Lascars 
were assigned to each company each having 1 Serang, 2 first Tindals, 
2 second Tindals, 56 Lascars and 1 Puckalie. 
Although so recent, the organization just described was 
soon modified, for on the 1 st May 1787 , the Artillery was 
constituted one of the Brigades of the Army and a Brigade-Major 
appointed to it, but strange to say he was an Infantry officer. 
Education in the ranks at this time was very defective, and the 
subject had long occupied Colonel Pearse's attention. Under his 
orders a Regimental school had been established in 1778 , and in 1787 
he again referred to the matter in Regimental orders in the following 
terms :—“ Colonel Pearse having the welfare of his soldiers at heart, 
“ has thought proper to establish a school for their instruction, that by 
“ teaching them to read, he may enable them to learn their duty as 
“ Christians, from the books of their religion, and as soldiers, from the 
“ orders and regulations laid down for their guidance.” 
To induce Non-commissioned officers to qualify themselves for their 
position, he directs, that every Sergeant employing a man to write 
and read for him, shall pay him six rupees a month, or to write 
for him four rupees a month, and he shall not read on parade or be 
excused his duties. The number allowed to attend school from eanb 
1787 . 
