Officers of the Honorable East
India Company Service
Garrison - St Helena - 1816
(contributed by Colin Fox)
| St Helena Foot Regiment | St Helena Artillery | |
| Colonel | Mark Wilks | |
| Lt Colonels | George de Billinghurst
John Skelton John A Wright |
Edward Charles Smith |
| Majors | Charles Robert George Hodson | David Kinnaird |
| Captains | Patrick Killen
Charles Sampson Robert Wright Henry Cole Francis Searl [Seale?] Onisephorus Beale |
Robert Statham
Henry Huff Pritchard Thomas James Baldwin Cole John Barnes William Milne Henry Broadway |
| Lieutenants | John Melliss Jnr
James Bennett Patrick Cunningham John Bligh Spiller James Ramsay Daniel McMahon |
John Edmund Shortis
David Pritchard Thomas Thorne T Montgomery Hunter George Andrew Den Taffe Robert Eager William Hall Robert Armstrong Daniel O'Conner |
| 2nd Lieutenants | Charles Defountaine
William Fuller Caesar Jones Ashton |
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| Ensigns | George Paterson
Alexander A Younge |
source:
Army List for 1815.
When Napoleon was taken to the island in 1815, the Kings gave the HEICS officers the equivalent local rank in the British Army. This was supposed to prevent friction between the garrison and the regular army.