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Ensign (/ˈɛnsən/; Late
Middle English, from Old
French enseigne (transl. mark, symbol, signal; flag, standard, pennant), from
Latin insignia (plural))...
- the
Royal Military College,
Sandhurst and on 21
April 1821,
purchased an
ensigncy in the 22nd
Regiment of Foot. He
exchanged from the half-pay of that regiment...
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General Sir
George Beckwith, the
governor of Barbados, he
obtained an
ensigncy in the York
Light Infantry Volunteers in 1813. He was
promoted lieutenant...
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educated at Eton and at the
court of the Duke of Brunswick. He
purchased an
ensigncy in the 40th Foot in 1790. Wellesley's
diplomatic career began in 1791 when...
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Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire, England. On 14 May 1852, he
purchased an
ensigncy in the 9th
Regiment of Foot. He was
promoted to
lieutenant on 6 June 1854...
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examinations in May 1852, and was
appointed at the age of
sixteen to an
ensigncy without purchase in the 2nd or Queen's foot. His
biographer Sir William...
- of
Frederick the Great, he
returned to
England and in 1771
purchased an
Ensigncy in the 1st
Regiment of Footguards. In the army
Hanger gained the re****tion...
- 1859, at the age of 22, he
founded The
Irish Times. Knox
purchased an
Ensigncy in the 63rd Foot in 1854 and was
promoted lieutenant without purchase later...
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before volunteering for the
British Army in
India in 1806. He
obtained an
ensigncy in the 22nd
Regiment of Foot in 1807 then
exchanged into the 3rd Light...
- 1836. At the age of
eighteen years he was gazetted, in June 1854, to an
ensigncy in the 48th Foot.
Landing with the 48th
Regiment in the
Crimea on 21 April...
