Army Lists (officers) any early years online?

[ainslie]

I am looking for online editions of the Army List which I believe to have been published each year from 1702.  The National Library of Scotland has a long run of them but it appears to start later than my interest.
I am interested in the career of Francis Lind of the 14th Regiment of Foot (or one of its earlier titles*) who was listed in 1754 as Lieutenant from 22 June 1745 and as surgeon from 3 June 1726.
He had qualified as a doctor of medicine before his army service and may have held a dual role.  He died in Gibraltar in 1759.
*1685: Hales's
1688: Beveridge's
1692:Tidcomb's
1713: Clayton's
1743: Price's

Any suggestions about the regiment's service in Scotland during 1745 would also be useful.

Ainslie

[hanes teulu]

The Scots Magazine, 5 Feb 1759
DEATHS - Lately, at Gibraltar, Captain Lind, of Jeffery's foot

Aberdeen Press and Journal, 20 Feb 1759
Francis Lind, esq, to be captain in col. Jefferies' regiment of foot

[hanes teulu]

The Trial of the admirable John Byng ....
Author - John Byng   Published 1757

The state and condition of His Majesty's Ship Portland, Captain Baird, Commander, in Gibraltar Bay 1756

Soldiers of General Guise's Regiment
Quality Lieutenant ....... Officers' Names Francis Lind

(Note - these are not marines - marines are recorded separately) 

[hanes teulu]

Robert Douglas Sen's "The Genealogy of the family of Lind .....", published 1795 describes him as "Captain Francis Lind, M.D. ...."

[ainslie]

Thank you for those references.  His rank of captain seems to have come at the very end of his life and I am curious about his apparent dual role in the regiment.
A

[GrahamSimons]

With reference to his medical role, you might look at Peterkin and Drew, Commissioned Officers in the Medical Services of the British Army, 1660-1960.

[ShaunJ]

"Authorisation for commissions for Francis Lind, [-] Bruere and Francis Brereton to be ensigns in Lieutenant General Jaspar Clayton's regiment of foot. " (February 4 1740)

http://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C12756588

[ainslie]

Thank you for more references, which I had seen.  I am hoping that a contact will be able to  look at the Discovery item for me after the holidays.

A

[ShaunJ]

Per Roll of Commissioned Officers in the Medical Service of the British Army, 1727-1898 he resigned from his position as regimental surgeon in 1758.