During the year 1851 the reserve battalion continued to be stationed at Toronto.
In May 1852, the reserve battalion proceeded from Toronto to Kingston. On the 8th of June following, Lieut.-Colonel Sir Hew Dalrymple, Bart., retired from the service by the sale of his commission, and was succeeded by Lieut.-Colonel Nathaniel Massey Stack.
On the 1st of July 1852, the date to which this Record has been brought, the first battalion of the SEVENTY-FIRST regiment was stationed at Newry, under the command of Lieut.-Colonel William Denny; the reserve battalion continued at Kingston, in Canada.
[6] Regiments raised in the spring of 1778:--
72d regiment, or Royal _Manchester_ Volunteers disbanded in 1783. 73d _Highland_ regiment numbered the 71st regiment in 1786. 74th _Highland_ regiment disbanded in 1784. 75th Prince of Wales’s regiment disbanded in 1783. 76th _Highland_ regiment disbanded in 1784. 77th regiment, or _Atholl Highlanders_ disbanded in 1783. 78th _Highland_ regiment numbered the 72d regiment in 1786. 79th regiment, or Royal _Liverpool_ volunteers disbanded in 1784. 80th regiment, or Royal _Edinburgh_ volunteers disbanded in 1784. 81st _Highland_ regiment disbanded in 1783. 82d regiment disbanded in 1784. 83d regiment, or Royal _Glasgow_ volunteers disbanded in 1783.
Two of these twelve regiments have been retained on the establishment of the Army, namely, the _seventy-third_ and _seventy-eighth_, which are the present SEVENTY-FIRST and SEVENTY-SECOND regiments.
[7] A memoir of General the Right Honorable Sir David Baird, Bart., G.C.B., is inserted in the _Appendix_, page 144.
[8] See memoir of Captain Philip Melvill in the _Appendix_, page 143.
[9] The following allusion to Captain Gilchrist is made by Captain _Munro_, in his _Narrative_:--
“Here our regiment had the misfortune of burying Captain Gilchrist, a brave and experienced officer, whose loss the SEVENTY-THIRD had much cause to lament, he having always acted as a mentor to the young and inexperienced gentlemen of his corps. This veteran had the honor, when a subaltern, of witnessing the exploits of General Wolfe upon the plains of Quebec, and was now at the head of our grenadier company; but, having exerted himself too much upon the march to Conjeveran, he was seized at that place with a fever, which disabling him from conducting the grenadiers upon the detachment under Lieut.-Colonel Fletcher, affected his mind so deeply, particularly when he heard of their dismal fate, that a delirium came on during this march, of which he died, regretted and justly lamented by all.”