A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Greene, Augustus Percival
GREENE. (Lieutenant, 1842.)
Augustus Percival Greene died, we believe, in January, 1845.
This officer entered the Navy 23 June, 1831; passed his examination 7 May, 1838; and, for his services during the war in China, where he officiated as Mate of the Cornwallis 72, flag-ship of Sir Wm. Parker, and served on shore in the operations against Chapoo and Woosung, was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant 23 Dec. 1842.[1] His last appointment was, 8 July, 1843, to the Plover surveying-vessel, commanded in the East Indies by Capt. Rich. Collinson, with whom he continued until the period of his death. Agents – Hallett and Robinson.
- ↑ Vide Gaz. 1842, pp. 3400, 3694, 3821.