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- Lieutenant Colonel Charles CARLISLE. East India Company’s Artillery. (1st Battalion Madras Artillery)
Born 1760 in Ireland. Husband of Mary who died 8 April 1864 at Waterford, Ireland at the home of her son-in-law Rev William McCance who married Jane, their daughter.
12 July 1782 Captain of East India Artillery, India
1801 at Fort St George, India as Lieutenant Colonel. residing at Thomas’s Mount.
Died 1802 in India. Commemorated on a family tomb in St Mary’s Churchyard, Comber County Down, Northern Ireland.
London Gazette dated Tuesday 7 May 1796
War Office 10 May 1796. (In old English)
His Majefty has been pleafed to appoint the under mentioned Officers of the Eaft India Company’s Forces to take Rank by Brevet in His Majefty’s Army in the Eaft Indied only, as follows.
Promoted to Captain
The London Gazette dated 10 February 1798 (Old English)
HIS MAJESTY has been pleafed to. appoint the under mentioned Officers of the Eaft India
Companies Forces to take Rank, by Brevet, in His Majefty's Army in the Eaft Indies only, as follows.
Commiffions dated the 1ft Day of January, 1798.
He served as Major, Commissary General Stores of the Bengal Artillery during the third Mysore war 1799
Promotion to Lieutenant Colonel, not found in the London Gazette.
Extract from Madras artillery records Volume 2.
G.O. Camp at Balledhully 16 August 1799. Lieutenant Colonel Carlisle as Senior Officer of Artillery in Camp, will be in command of the whole and direct the Adjutant of 2nd Battalion to conduct the Staff duties of the Artillery of the Line.
G.O. Camp at Daverhoonally 23 August 1799. Lieutenant Colonel Carlisle will direct the relief to-morrow morning by the Bengal Artillery, of all details of the Coast Artillery, attached to Ordnance in the Line of Infantry.
His Majesty’s 25th Dragoons and 2nd Battalion of Artillery, to be held in readiness to march under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Carlisle, according to instructions, which he will receive from Head Quarters. The details from the 2nd Battalion of Artillery at Chittedroog and with Lieut Colonel Oliver’s detachment, to be held in readiness to join the Battalion on its arrival at the station.
