THE ROYAL ARTILLERY INSTITUTION. 
259 
MEMOIRS 
OF THE 
ROYAL REGIMENT OE ARTILLERY, 
BY COLONEL FORBES MACBEAN, 1743-1779. 
[No. II.] 
[Printed from MSS. in Royal Artillery Library, Woolwich.] 
In June 1743 the Royal Regiment of Artillery consisted of eight 
companies, commanded by a Colonel (Lieut.-General Albert Borgard), 
Lieut.-Colonel (Thomas Pattison), and Major (Jonathan Lewis), with the 
following staff officers, viz. Chaplain, Adjutant, Quarter-Master, Bridge- 
Master, Surgeon and Mate. 
N.B. The first who had a commission of Colonel of the Royal Regiment of 
Artillery was Lieut.-General Albert Borgard; it is dated November 1st, 1727, and 
the Regiment consisted then of four companies. 
The establishment of each company was, one captain, one captain-lieut., 
one first-lieut., one second-lieut., and three lieut.-fireworkers; three 
serjeants, three corporals, eight bombardiers, twenty gunners, sixty-four 
mattrosses, and two drummers, making one hundred and seven each 
company. 
The pay of the officers was the same then as at present (1783), that of 
the lieut.-fireworkers three shillings per diem—two shillings and three 
pence subsistence, and ninepence arrears. 
The uniform dress of the officers, was a plain blue coat lined with scarlet, 
a large scarlet Argyle cuff, double-breasted, and with yellow buttons to the 
bottom of the skirts, scarlet waistcoats and breeches, the waistcoats triuTd 
with a broad gold lace, and a gold laced hat. 
The serjeants coats were trim'd, the lappels, cuffs and pockets with a 
broad single gold lace, the corporals and bombardiers with a narrow single 
gold lace; the gunners and mattrosses, plain blue coats; all the non¬ 
commissioned officers and privates having scarlet half-lappels, scarlet cuffs, 
and slashed sleeves with five buttons, and blue waistcoats and breeches; 
the serjeants hats trim'd with a broad and the other non-commissioned 
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