ensigncy
ensignship

He purchased an Ensigncy in the 40th Foot in 1790.

Fermor was appointed to an ensigncy in the 3rd Foot Guards.

On 20 March 1835, he purchased an ensigncy in the 18th Regiment of Foot.

The attackers were repulsed and, six months later, on 9 April 1777, he obtained an ensigncy in the 84th Regiment.

In 1858 he purchased an ensigncy in the 68th Durham Light Infantry for 450 pounds.

About 1706 he moved to England where he received an ensigncy in the Regiment of French Foot.

He was severely wounded, but his daring was rewarded by Lord Lake with an ensigncy in the 65th foot.

He was educated at Eton College and later purchased an Ensigncy in the 53rd Foot.

In need of money, in 1796 Hanger sold his lieutenant-colonelcy and purchased an ensigncy in the 70th Foot.

Knox purchased an Ensigncy in the 63rd Foot in 1854 and was promoted Lieutenant without purchase later the same year.

In 1824 he purchased an Ensigncy in the 44th Foot, but three months later exchanged into the 28th Foot.

He obtained a cadetship in 1775, and was appointed to an ensigncy in the Madras infantry, 21 Nov. 1776.

He has the promise of an ensigncy in General ----'s regiment, now quartered in the North.

He purchased an ensigncy in the Coldstream Guards on 26 July 1735, and was promoted lieutenant in May 1740.

He obtained an ensigncy in the 10th (the North Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot, and went with them to India.

He purchased an Ensigncy in the Rifle Brigade in 1862 and a Lieutenantcy in 1866.

Consequently he was awarded an ensigncy in the 43rd Regiment of Foot by the Duke of Cumberland.

In the autumn of 1799 he obtained an ensigncy in the 6th Foot, and accompanied the expedition to Holland under the Duke of York.

Jonathan was gazetted to a cadetcy in 1770, and two years later to an ensigncy in the 29th native infantry of the Carnatic.

A small sum given him as the pay of an inland ensigncy, now conferred on him, but antedated, sufficed to defray the expenses of the voyage.

Bayly was promoted from the half-pay of the 85th Regiment to an ensigncy in the Coldstream Guards on 30 October 1790.

Through General Sir George Beckwith, governor of Barbados, he obtained an Ensigncy in the York Light Infantry Volunteers in 1813.

He later, in 1783, transferred to the regular army and obtained an ensigncy in the 1st Regiment of Foot (The Royal Regiment or Royal Scots).

Educated at Woolwich Academy he entered the British Army in 1806 as a volunteer, obtaining an ensigncy in the 22nd Regiment of Foot in 1807.

After joining the Prussian Army of Frederick the Great, he returned to England and in 1771 purchased an Ensigncy in the 1st Regiment of Footguards.

His skill in mathematics earned him a place in a grammar school and then, in 1781, an Ensignship in the 33rd Regiment of Foot.