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claims on the company for wages, see L/E/6-7 for later recruitment’s
Bengal Histories of Service.
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Was formerly styled the Bengal Military Club, the members of which were limited to the I.C.S. and military services. As time, however, moved on and things changed they found that this particular form of exclusiveness was rather an expensive luxury, and very wisely threw open wide the heavenly portals and admitted within their celestial and sacred precincts members of other government services, save and except those of the Bengal pilots. Why the club ever made this invidious distinction, of course I cannot say, but at a later period, recognising possibly the injustice of their action, they rescinded their prohibition, and now the pilots sit in the seats of the mighty amongst the members of the other services. "
THE BENGAL PILOT SERVICEThe following comprises extracts are from my own unpublished manuscript of records for Genealgists Geneaolgists interested in India
1. [[National Maritime Museum]] (Greenwich).
L/MAR/C/855# 1821 Seamen in the Bengal marine who have
V/12 1896-1926 Covenanted pilots are included in the
L/AG/20 & 21 1814 -Post 1947 Bengal Marine and Bengal Pilot Service
Includes records of leave and service pensions 2028922 - 23; 2028925; 2029155
L/AG/21/9/151-157 1920-1968 Bengal Pilot Fund pensions paid in UK
