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Ensign (/ˈɛnsən/; Late
Middle English, from Old
French enseigne (transl. mark, symbol, signal; flag, standard, pennant), from
Latin insignia (plural))...
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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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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...
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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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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...
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accomplished sketcher and watercolourist. In 1858
Robley purchased an
ensigncy in the 68th (The Durham)
Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry) for £450. After...
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chapter of his history. A
small sum
given him as the pay of an
inland ensigncy, now
conferred on him, but antedated,
sufficed to
defray the
expenses of...
- sent on to Bicheno's
Newbury seminary,
where in 1807 he
learned that an
ensigncy in the 90th
Regiment had been
conferred upon him from 12
March that year...
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Medal with
three Clasps. Major-General Byam's
first commission was an
ensigncy in the 38th, with
which regiment he
served two campaigns: all his other...
