You are here: [ RESOURCES ► BRITISH MED STATIONS ]

BRITISH MEDITERRANEAN STATIONS 1854
These lists have been compiled from the Army List for December, 1854 and the Navy List corrected to the 20th of December, 1854. Shown are the Army and Navy (and some civilian) officials in place at the time, administering these vital LoC bases for the Black Sea theatre of the war.
 
GIBRALTAR

Union flag in use in 1854
 
 
Governor & Commander in Chief
 
Lieutenant General Sir Robert William Gardiner K.C.B. K.C.H.
Assistant Military Secretary
Captain Henry Lyndedoch Gardiner, Royal Artillery.
Aides de Camp
Captain Robert Bethune, 92nd Foot
Captain Barclay Lawson, Royal Artillery (extra)
 
Colonel on the Staff
Colonel Henry William Gordon, Commandant Royal Artillery
Town Major
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Edward Lacy (half pay)
Town Adjutant
Lieutenant William Hume (half pay)
Garrison Quarter Master
Captain John William Cox, 13th Foot
 
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT
Deputy Commissary General
Gilbert Hamilton Dinwiddie
Assistant Commissary General
William Henry Dalrymple
Deputy Assistant Commissary General
George Augustus Dougan
 
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
Inspector General (local rank)
Daniel Scott, m.d.
Surgeon, 2nd Class
Thomas Guy, m.d.
Assistant Surgeon
Dudley Hanley, m.d.
 
ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT
Commanding Officer, Artillery
Colonel Henry William Gordon
Commanding Officer, Engineers
Lieutenant-Colonel Cowper Rose
Senior Surgeon
Charles Dempsy
Surgeons
Fisher
George Pain
 
Storekeeper
Richard Forman
Deputy Storekeeper
G. Stokes
Barrack Master, South District
Sir Frederick William Frankland, Bt.
Barrack Master, North District
T. Townsend
 
DOCKYARD
Naval Officer in charge of Stores
Captain Hon. George Grey
 
VICE-ADMIRALTY & PRIZE JURISDICTION
Vice Admiral
General Sir Robert William Gardiner, or the officer
administering the Government of Gibraltar for the time being.
Judge
Judge of the Supreme Court of Justice for the time being.
Registrar
Archibald Campbell, Esq. (Provisional)
Advocate & Procurator
Marcus Costello, Esq.
Marshal
Edward Legh Master, Esq. (Provisional)
 
 
 
MALTA


Union flag in use in 1854
 
 
Governor & Commander in Chief
 
Colonel Sir William Reid, Royal Engineers, K.C.B.
Private Secretary
(vacancy)
Aide de Camp
Captain William Howley Goodenough, Royal Artillery
 
Commanding the Forces
 
Lieutenant General James Ferguson C.B.
Assistant Military Secretary
Brevet Major Pocklington, unattached
Aide de Camp
Captain Frederick Francis Maude, 3rd Foot
Town Major
Brevet Major Bertram Charles Mitford, unattached
Commanding the Forces, Gozo
(vacancy)
 
CHAPLAINS DEPARTMENT
Chaplain to the Forces
Reverend William Hare, MA
 
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT
Commissary General
Henry James Wild
Assistant Commissaries General
George Shepheard
Charles Thomas Malassez
George Horne
Deputy Assistant Commissary General
Hector John Macaulay
 
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
Surgeon, 1st Class
Daniel Armstrong
Surgeon, 2nd Class
John Trench, m.d.
Apothecary
James Woolley Simpson
Acting Assistant Surgeons

Jeffrey Allen Marston, m.d.
Henry Maund
 
 
ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT
Commanding Officer, Artillery
Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Gostling
Commanding Officer, Engineers
Lieutenant-Colonel Francis Ringler Thomson
Surgeon
Robert Templeton, m.d.
Storekeeper
Jeremy Jones
Deputy Storekeeper
F. A. Piesse
Barrack Master, Valetta District
Deputy Storekeeper F. A. Piesse
Barrack Master, Floriana
R. D. Macdonald, late Captain 42nd Foot
 
DOCKYARD
Rear Admiral Superintendent
Rear Admiral Houston Stewart
Master Attendant & Queen's Harbour Master
James Saunders, Esq.
Master Shipwright
William Ladd, Esq.
Naval Storekeeper
B. W. Pidcock, Esq.
Agent Victualler
Francis Clifton, Esq.
 
NAVAL MEDICAL ESTABLISHMENT
Deputy Medical Inspector
John G. Stewart, m.d.
Surgeon & Storekeeper
Hamilton Dickson Robert Henning
Assistant-Surgeon
Joseph A. R. Harvey, m.d.
 
VICE-ADMIRALTY & PRIZE JURISDICTION
Vice Admiral
Lieutenant Colonel Sir William Reid, K.C.B., or the office administering the Government of Malta for the time being.
Judge
Dr. Dingli
Registrar
(vacancy)
Advocate
(vacancy)
Marshal
William Lindquist, Esq.
Admiralty Proctor
(vacancy)
 
 
 
IONIAN ISLANDS

(comprising Corfu, Vido, Paxo, Santa Maura, Cephalonia, Zante, Ithaca & Calamos, and Cerigo)
 

 
Flag of the Islands during British rule
 
 
Lord High Commissioner
 
Sir Henry George Ward, G.C.M.G.
Aides de Camp
Captain Edward Charles Butler, 36th Foot
Geo. Wm. Hamilton FitzMaurice, Viscount Kirkwall, 71F (extra)
 
Major General on the Staff
Major General Alexander Fisher Macintosh, K.H.
Assistant Military Secretary
Captain William F. Dickson, 62nd Foot
Aide de Camp
Captain William Boyle, 89th Foot
Deputy Quarter Master General
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel R. Walpole (half pay)
Major of Brigade
Brevet Lieutenant Colonel George Thurles Finucane, unattached
Resident, Zante
Colonel Berkeley Wodehouse
Resident, Santa Maura
Baron d'Everton
Resident, Paxo
Captain Murray
 
 
COMMISSARIAT DEPARTMENT
Deputy Commissary General
Oliver Goldsmith
Deputy Assistant Commissaries General
George Atkinson
Edward Ibbotson
Frederick George Woolrabe
 
MEDICAL DEPARTMENT
Deputy Inspector General (Corfu)
James Barry, m.d.
Surgeon, 1st Class (Corfu)
George Gordon Robertson, m.d.
Surgeon, 2nd Class (Corfu)
James Richard Ffennell
Apothecary (Corfu)
Joseph Schembri
Assistant Surgeons (Corfu)
William Woodroffe
Samuel Gibson, m.b.
 
 
ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT
Commanding Officer, Artillery
Lieutenant Colonel Henry Pester
Commanding Officer, Engineers
Captain Edmund Ogle
Senior Surgeon (Corfu)
John Atkins Davis
Storekeeper (Corfu)
G. Wyatt
Storekeeper (Cephalonia – Clerk in Charge)
C. Davis
Deputy Storekeeper (Santa Maura)
P. F. Daston
Deputy Storekeeper (Zante)
T. S. Ford
Barrack Master (Zante)
John Daniell, late Major 66th Foot
Barrack Master (Cephalonia)
C. Davis, Ordnance Clerk (acting)
Barrack Master (Santa Maura & Ithaca)
P. Daston, Deputy Storekeeper
Barrack Master (Zante & Cerigo)
 
 
T. S. Ford, Deputy Storekeeper