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Inevitable Military Promotions and Normandy Lighthouses
Military promotions announced by purchase include Guards and Foot regiments with shifts in officers such as Walter Fletcher Gafon and Francis Edward Gwynne to higher posts, plus multiple lieutenant and ensign by purchase. Translations detail four Normandy lighthouses near Barfleur La Heve and La Lailly, their positions, heights, and guiding angles to aid navigators along the coast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Gazette
War Office
Horse “Guards
Walter Fletcher Gafon
Cornet
Lionel Felton Hervey
2D Regiment
Light Dra Goons
Francis N. Fidward Gwynne
Robert Williams
Robert Trewren
Francis Edward Gwynne
Ditto
Cornet Thomas
Leigh
Thomas Trewsen
Purchase
Thomas Dodd
Genes
Thomas Leigh
Purchas
Wiliam ‘Boyce
Thomas Webb
Sh Regiment of Foot’ Guards
Philip Sherrard
Ice John Salter
Lancelot Baugh
Robert Venables Hinde
42D
Francis‘Carr €Lerke
2D Regiment of Foot
Bernard Shaw
Charles Bildwin
James Bail
Lieutesant
Solomon Peter Delhofte
James Ball
William Roberts
67Th Regiment of Foot
Thomas Kirkman
James Kirkman
76Th Regiment of Foot
Robert Irving
John Dumaresq
Thomas Banks
Chamber of Commerce of
Normandy
Chamber of Commerce
Rouen
Cape Galleville
Barfleur
Cape de la Heve
Havre de Grace
Cape Lailly
Dieppe
St. Vallery
Cafix
Cape Gatteville
Fea
4Gatteville
Garfleur
Sailly
Havre
Favre
Lailly
la Galerey