Gilbert Cimitiere

Born [date unknown] in France

Died 14 Oct 1842 in Channel Islands

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Biography

Gilbert Cimitiere is Notable.

Gilbert Cimitiere is believed to have been an immigrant from France who served in the British Army initially in Flanders, and then against his birth country in the The Napoleonic Wars.

The British troop ship Dick left Cork, Ireland on 3 April 1817 she arrived at Sydney Town in New South Wales on the 3rd of September 1817. She brought troops in the form of a detachment of the 48th Regiment of Foot commanded by the now Major Cimitiere.

In March of the following year Cimitiere was appointed commandant at Port Dalrymple in northern Van Diemen's Land in place of Major James Stewart. So with three other officers and eighty men he arrived at his Launceston headquarters in April 1818. But he faced internal disputes with his men and externally with Van Diemen's Land's Lieutenant-Governor William Sorell. In May 1819 he was finally able to move to his new headquarters, to the greater isolation of George Town, which had been Governor Lachlan Macquarie's choice for this settlement. This made it easier for Cimitiere to control his personnel, but he still faced obstruction from Lieutenant-Governor William Sorell at every turn.

Finally in December 1822 he was able to return to Sydney, quickly taking command of the 48th Regiment, and for twelve months he was entrusted to act as lieutenant-governor under the incoming new Governor Sir Thomas Brisbane. He sailed with his regiment in 1824 for India but returned to England next year in bad health and retired in 1828.

He passed away in 1842 on Jersey in the Channel Islands.

Sources

• Cimitiere, Gilbert (?–1842), Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cimitiere-gilbert-1895/text2233, published first in hardcopy 1966, accessed online 26 March 2022

• Dick (1788 ship) from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia first accessed online on the 26th of March, 2022 at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_%281788_ship%29

• Governors Of Tasmania

• 200th Anniversary of George Town (Macquarie Bicentenary) from the Monument Australia website first accessed online on the 26th of March, 2022 at: https://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/landscape/settlement/display/104047-200th-anniversary-of-george-town-macquarie-bicentenary

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