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Depot 26th Regiment of Infantry; Age at Entry into the Army; 18 years 7 months; Captain William Hopson Hopson Honours; Not Stated; Wounds and Pensions; Not Stated; Honours and Medals; Not Stated; Service Abroad; December 1839 to September 1842; Ceylon; 12 August 1842 to 23 December 1841; Gibraltar; 13 June 1845 to 14 March 1847; Barbados

Captain Walter B Park; Born; Invernesshire; DOB; 16 June 1817; Ensign; Full Pay; 26 Regiment; Not Stated; 26 December 1834; Without Purchase; Not Stated; Lieutenant; Full Pay; 26 Regiment; Not Stated; 15 June 1839; Without Purchase; Not Stated; Captain; Not Stated; Half Pay; Unattached; 15 June 1849; Not Stated; Half Pay; Without Purchase; Captain; Full Pay; 26 Foot; Not Stated; 22 February 1850; Full Pay; Without Paying Difference; Sold Out of the Service 11 March 1853; List of Battle Sieges and Campaigns; Siege and capture of Amoy and (Kulangsu?) 26 August 1841; Prensent at Chinese attack on Ningpo 10 March 1842; 15 March 1842 at Segaon; 18 May 1842 taking of Chapu; 19 June 1842 at Shanghai; 21 July 1842 at ChingKiang; 11 August 1842 at Nanking; Lieutenant in 26 Regiment in the above Sir Hugh Gough Commander in Chief; Marriage; 10 June 1850; Argrennan Castle Douglas North Britain; (Anne Ker?); Reverend DS Williams Tongland Scotland; Maggie Gertrude Mackerton; 17 August 1851.

Depot 26th Regiment of Infantry; Age at Entrance into the Army; 18 Years; Medal for Services in China; 12 November 1835 - 1 June 1838; East Indies; 15 July 1840 - 11 August 1841; East Indies; 11 August 1841 - 8 February 1843; China; 8 February 1843 - 14 August 1843; East Indies

Captain Wiilliam H Hussey; Born; Lyme Dorsetshire; DOB; 9 January 1819; Ensign; Full Pay; 67 Foot; Not Stated; 7 November 1839 By Purchase; Not Stated; Lieutenant; Full Pay; 67 Foot; Not Stated; 29 September 1843; By Purchase; Not Stated; Captain; Full Pay; 67 Foot; Not Stated; 10 September 1847; By Purchase; Not Stated; Captain; Full Pay; 26 Foot; Not Stated; 15 March 1850; Appointed; Not Stated; Sold out of the Service 17 November 1854; Battles Sieges and Campaigns; Not Stated; Marriage; 14 February 1844; Lyme Regis Dorset; Sarah Anne Hill; Not Stated; Reverend Richard Hill Rector of Timsbury Somerset Protestant; Children; John Templeman; 6 December 1844; Lyme Regis; William Edward; 26 December 1845; Lyme Regis; Henry James Nesbitt; 2 April 1847; Lyme Regis; Sarah Anne; 16 January 1849; Gibralter; Thomas Arthur; 30 December 1851; Cardiff.

Depot 26th Regiment of Infantry; Age on Entrance into the Army; 20; Service Abroad; 1841 1 February - 1849 1 December ; Gibraltar.