Franz, Christopher

Port Elizabeth 1 June 1824
To
His Excellency
The Rt Honble Lord Charles Somerset
Governor, Commander in Chief
& & &
The Memorial of Christopher Franz
Humbly Sheweth that Your Excellencys
Memorialist is Native of Hanover, & Joined
the English Army August 15 1809 with
the Duke of Brunswicks Cavalry & has since
served in the 1 & 4 Battalions of the
1 or Royal Scots, as a Private, & Non
Commissioned Officer, and that in the Night
about the 8 or 9 of March 1814, when
sealing the Walls of a Battery at Bergen op
Zoom, under the Command of General Graham
he Received a Musket Ball in the left Jaw
and was injured by a Bayonet over the
left Eye, and that in Falling from the
Wall he was hurt in the Back, & also
Rupturd . . . Memorialist passed the
Board at Kilmainham Hospital Dublin
& was granted a pension of six Pence per
Day, after which being desirous of getting
back to my own Country Memorialist
petitioned & had Thirty Pounds Sterling
granted him in advance & proceeded to
his Native Country. _ came back to London in

August 1819_ & sent in his Memorial,
with Recommendation from His Royal
Highness the Duke of Kent relative to
his Pension, but the Ship in which
Memorialist came with Mr Bailies
Party coming away sooner than he
expected, he neither received his Papers
nor his Pension
Your Excellencys Memorialist
has been laid up with the Rheumatism
for Six Months past, and has a Wife
& six Children, the youngest only about a
Month old, & none of them able to get
their own living, & from the little Money
he has been able to earn, not being
sufficient to maintain them, he has
been obliged to part with some of his
Necessaries to keep his Family from
Starvation
Memorialist humbly intreats
your Excellency will be pleased to take
his Case into Consideration, & give him
such sort of Assistance as may be in
your Excellencys power to procure his
Pension from the Year 1819
And Your Excellencys Memorialist
as in Duty bound will ever Pray &
Christopher Franz