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CAVAN Militia Permanent Staff in 1856

CAVAN Militia Permanent Staff in 1856

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 4:55PM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: GOSSELIN; DUFF; CHINNERY; THOMPSON; DONALDSON; SHERIDAN; RUGGLES; CONNOLLY; WITHERS; M'KRAGUE; ROURKE; WALSH; MORGAN; ELLIOTT; LAWRENCE; ANTHONY O'BRIEN; FERGUSON; MORGAN; BOWLES; SWEENY; WILSEN; BRADY; LOGAN; BABINGTON; SMITH; WILSON; M'GOVERN.
Lieut. Col. the Right Hon. the Earl of BECTIVE read the official order for the disembodiment (dissolution) of the Cavan Militia on Monday, 25 August 1856. Members of the permanent staff:

Adjutant N. GOSSELIN; Quartermaster P. DUFF (late 68th); Sergeant-Major William CHINNERY (late 66th); Quartermaster-Sergeant George THOMPSON; (late 27th); Colour-Sergeant David DONALDSON (late 72nd Highlanders); Colour-Sergeant James SHERIDAN (late 48th); Colour-Sergeant John RUGGLES (late 16th); Colour-Sergeant John CONNOLLY (late 14th); Colour-Sergeant Edmund WITHERS (late Grenadier Guards); Colour-Sergeant James M'KRAGUE; Colour-Sergeant Hugh ROURKE (late 47th); Sergeant Robert WALSH; Drum-Major Charles MORGAN; Sergeant William ELLIOTT (late 27th); Sergeant Hewitt LAWRENCE; Sergeant Francis ANTHONY (late Constabulary); Sergeant James O'BRIEN; Sergeant John FERGUSON; Sergeant John MORGAN; Sergeant William BOWLES (late 14th); Drummers Miles SWEENY (late 24th), Robert WILSEN, Denis BRADY, Joseph LOGAN, Henry BABINGTON, Thomas SMITH, James WILSON and Peter M'GOVERN.

Why so many Colour-Sergeants? Do they have special duties? Many staff members are described as 'late' whatever. Are these the designations of other Militia they may have been members of before joining the Cavan Militia?
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