Might he have been a Royal Marine, or didn't they have Lieutenants in those days?

Most certainly they had Lieutenants in the Royal Marines : First Lieutenants and Second Lieutenants according to Steel's List of 1805, but Sea going soldiers are not on my agenda and I've not indexed them. I found references to a number of Army officers who were Lieutenants with the appropriate surname in Google Books, but ignored that angle too, In the early years of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars ISTR reading that ordinary Pongos, the RN nickname for Army personnel, were used on board ship during the early years of the wars as there were insufficient numbers of Marines to man the ships during the early years of the war, but as the war progressed I gather that the Pongos were replaced by Marines as they were recruited, but I have no date-line as to how this progressed, but imagine that by the turn of the Century most Army personnel would have been replaced ? Paul On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 09:33:13 -0000, "Piers Smith-Cresswell" <piers@ps-c.demon.co.uk> wrote: >Might he have been a Royal Marine, or didn't they have Lieutenants in those >days? > > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MARINERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message 50° 33' N, 2° 26' W http://www.pbenyon.plus.com/Naval.html