Crimean War Research Society - Resources - Royal Marine Brigade muster

You are here: [ RESOURCES ► RM BRIGADE ► ALGIERS ]

Royal Marine Brigade Muster

Those ashore from HMS Algiers

Transcribed from ADM 38/4674 96731 at The National Archives

Name	Rank	Name	Rank
Joseph Marsden Algiers Medal Roll ►	Private [ later Gunner ]	James Thompson Algiers Medal Roll ►	Private [ later Gunner ]
John North Algiers Medal Roll ►	Private [ later Gunner ]	William Chapman Algiers Medal Roll ►	Private
TOTAL FROM ALGIERS: 4 Original photocopy acquired by T. Muir from ADM 38/4674 96731 The National Archives, 1996.
ADDENDUM According to W.E.M. Reilly's schedule (see Introduction), the officers' names having been checked in the Navy List, no Royal Marine officers were landed from HMS Algiers until the draft of 202 officers and men on the 25th of October, which is after the dates covered by this muster. All three officers (McCallum, Wolridge* and Napier) recorded by Reilly as landing on that day were serving in Algiers, so it is reasonable to assume that the other 199 were mostly, or all, men from Algiers. The four listed above in the muster must have been an 'advance' party, presumably of experienced artillery men, judging by the fact that two of them were recorded as Gunners in the Medal Roll after the end of the war( ADM 171/23 and online at Ancestry.co.uk). However, when found in the Medal Roll, only William Chapman is recorded as having received the 'Balaklava' Clasp. This is odd considering the date they went ashore, unless of course it is a triple error. *Actually Ambrose Wolrige