First Hants Artillery Volunteers: Battery orders for week ending 16th July: Monday: The corps to parade in full uniform at the Drill-hall, at 6.30 p.m., for company drill and march-out; the band to attend. Tuesday: Gun and squad drill and carbine practice at Hamble range, at 5 p.m. Wednesday: Shot and shell practice at Hamble battery, at 3.30 p.m. Conveyances will leave the Itchen Toll-house for Hamble, on the arrival of the 2.20 p.m. bridge from Southampton; undress uniform. Thursday: Gun drill, etc., for Shoeburyness detachment, at Drill Hall, at 7 p.m. Friday: Gun and squad drill (recruits with arms) at Drill-hall, at 6.30 p.m. Officer and non-commissioned officer detailed for duty: Lieutenant E. R. Hill and Sergeant W. L. Massy: Promotions, etc. Bombardier, G. F. Wright to be Corporal, vice, Weston resigned; Gunner W. H. Pinsent to be Bombardier, Vice Wright, promoted; Gunner W. Scorey to be a member of the sub-committee — By order of the Commanding Officer. Orderly Room. Drill Hall Southampton, 8th July 1870.
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GRO0899 India: William Henry Pinsent: 1845 – 1895