William Fulford (1812-1886) is recorded as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, December 16th, 1831. He was commissioned in 1831, and served in Corfu (1834-1843), and Jamaica (1844-1847), where he was regularly promoted. He contracted yellow fever and was invalided home to become a recruiting officer in Exeter. He retired as Captain, on full pay, in November 1849, and during the Crimean War was given the honorary rank of Major. In October that year he was appointed Governor of Stafford Gaol, and remained in that post until his death on 5th June 1886. See: McConville, Sean. English local prisons, 1860-1900.
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Headings of longer sections include: Examining and proving ordnance -- Remarks on artillery -- General construction for brass ordnance -- Laying a gun -- Report of rocket and practice -- Exercise of 49 guns on standing carriages -- Firing trunnion bones -- Exercise of mortars -- Remarks on gunpowder -- Remarks on military carriages -- Remarks on military law -- Signal rockets -- A detail of equipments for field bolts ... of different natures -- The length, weight, caliber, class &c. of various pieces of ordnance &c.
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Fulford, William, 1812–1886. | Artillery -- Great Britain -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. | Artillery drill and tactics -- Great Britain -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. | Gun-carriages -- Great Britain -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. | Ordnance -- Great Britain -- Handbooks, manuals, etc. | Military art and science. | Military law -- Great Britain. | Military cadets -- Great Britain. | Military cadets -- Education -- Great Britain.