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 South African Commercial Advertiser (1841-1851)
| Date transcribed | 2010-00-00 | | Transcribed by | Sue Mackay - Marianne Mansfield - Colleen Sharpe Williams | | Comment | Sue McKay has kindly authorized us to publish her transcriptions of Family History-related data from the Announcements in the South African Commercial Advertiser. This is because they include very many references to personnel in the service of The East India Company en route to or from India or on furlough in S. Africa, which offered a more temperate climate. Also included are many officers and soldiers of the British Army regiments who may well have served in India shortly before or after serving in South Africa. |
| | Publication Date | 31 October 1846 | | | Event Date | 23 October 1846 | | | First Name(s) | C. J. | | | Surname | VAN DER MULLENS | | | Rank or Occupation | Lieutenant Colonel 73rd Regt | | | Full Entry | Saturday 31 October 1846: Graham�s Town, 23rd October 1846. Lieutenant-Colonel VAN DER MEULEN and Officers 73rd Regt take the opportunity of meeting Captain BROWN of the barque Catherine to express to him their high sense of his generous endeavours to afford assistance to HM Troop Ship Apollo (having 73rd Regt on board) when in great danger of going on shore on the reefs at the Great Fish River Mouth, at th place called Waterloo Bay, on the 30th August last. They feel grateful to Captain BROWN for having voluntarily left his ship at that time to give his opinion, founded on experience, as to the danger attending a longer stay on the part of the Apollo, and to tender his assistance to carry a hawser to a neighbouring vessel.
Lt-Col VAN DER MEULEN and Officers 73rd also sincerely regret to hear of the wreck, on the 5th instant, of the barque Catherine, at Waterloo Bay: and while they rejoice to hear of Captain BROWN�s escape, and that of his crew, cordially sympathise with him in his misfortune.
C.J. VAN DER MEULEN, Lt-Col.
N. PINCKNEY, Major
G.H. SMITH, Bt. Major
W.L. BARKER, captain
Charles HOGHTON, Lieut.
B.M. HICKSON
Hugh OWEN, Lieut.
Chas. LITTLEHALES, Lieut.
C. FAUNT, Lieut.
William H. MARK, Ensign
W. LAWES PETO, Lieut.
B. BROWN, Capt.Charles COMBE, Capt.
M.E. O�CONNELL, Capt.
W.G. CHETWYND, Lieut.
W.B. FAUNCE, Capt.
Alfred C. KNOX, Lieut.
John W. RAMSAY, Ensign
John CARWER, Quarter-Master
W.P. HODGSON, Assist-Surgeon
John CORST, Paymaster
P.B. RIETWELL, Adjutant
| | | Reference | CO53/7at the National Archives, Kew, London |
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