Historical records of the New Brunswick Regiment, Canadian Artillery

1N. v.. GARRISON ARTir,LERV. 5river Jhelum, in a conflict between the British forces commandedby Lord Gough and an army of Sikhs under ShereSingh. An obelisk was erected at the place bearing the namesof the officers and men who fell in the action.Of the St. John officers George Waterbury was a merchanton Nelson Street; Robert Robertson was a sailmaker, andCharles J.Melick a tanner. The sword of lieutenant, afterwardsMajor Melick, was in the possession of the late RobertReed,Esq.William Parker Ranney was of the firm of Ranney &Sturdee, wholesale wine merchants ; William Hughson was amerchant, and Fred A. Wiggins was a son of the benevolentfounder of the Wiggins' Orphan Institution of St. John. Thelife of Stephen Kent Foster was so largely identified withthe corps that it must be dealt wnth elsewhere. NewtonWard Wallop was a grandson of the veteran Major JohnWard and son of Barton Wallop, a naval officer, grandsonof the second Earl of Portsmouth. Newton Wallop andhis brother Barton had a thrilling experience in their boyhoodto which an allusion was previously made. They accidentallycaused the death of Daniel DeVoe, one of thesigners of the first muster roll of the Artillery company.DeVoe had been in a company which served on the Royalistside in the American Revolution, and was commanded byJohn Ward, the grandfather of the boys. On the 13th June,1 8 18, DeVoe, then an old man, was going to his home onKing street, and in doing so had to pass the residence ofCharles Ward where the lads were playing. They had discoveredtheir uncle's horse pistols which he had left upon atable on returning from militia training. Not knowing that theywere loaded they pointed them at each other and snapped the