The Waterloo Roll Call: With Biographical Notes and AnecdotesDalton, Charles
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The Waterloo Roll Call: With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes
Dalton, Charles
Great Britain. Army -- Registers; Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815
LIEUTENANTS. │
[11] Wm. Akenside 6 Aug. 1807 │2 Jan. 1807
[12] Charles Myler Brannan 3 Dec. 1807 │
[13] Samuel Beachcroft 28 Nov. 1811 │
[14] Wm. Buckle, Adjt. 3 Nov. 1812 │
[15] George Baldwin 9 Nov. 1814 │
[16] John Nickelson 5 Apr. 1815 │
[17] Lyttleton Westwood 6 Apr. 1815 │
[18] Henry Boldero 13 Apr. 1815 │
[19] Jas. Campbell Hartley 24 May, 1815 │
ENSIGNS. │
[20] Wm. Reed 13 Jan. 1814 │
[21] George Mackenzie 22 Jan. 1814 │
[22] Robert B. Newenham 27 Jan. 1814 │
[23] C. Fraser 10 Feb. 1814 │
[24] Aug. Fred. F. Adamson 3 Mar. 1814 │
[25] Wm. Keowen 21 Apr. 1814 │
[26] John Manley Wood 19 May, 1814 │
[27] Arthur Ormsby 2 June, 1814 │
[28] James Ramsay Smith 13 Oct. 1814 │
[29] Alfred Cooper, W. 1 Nov. 1814 │
[30] Joseph Bowlby 2 Nov. 1814 │
[31] John Powell Matthews 3 Nov. 1814 │
[32] Richard John Stacpoole 8 Nov. 1814 │
[33] Richard Birt Holmes 10 Nov. 1814 │
[34] Hon. George Thos. Keppel 4 Apr. 1815 │
PAYMASTER. │
[35] Robert Mitton 17 Feb. 1814 │
QUARTERMASTER. │
[36] Alexander Ross 20 Jan. 1814 │
VOLUNTEER. │
[37] Montague Burrows │
ASSISTANT-SURGEONS. │
[38] Alexander Shannon 27 Jan. 1814 │
[39] Henry Terry 21 Mar. 1814 │
_Facings buff._ _Lace silver._
Footnote H:
At the close of the Par. War the British Army was reduced to a peace
footing. The 3rd Batt. of the 14th Foot survived this general
reduction until the spring of 1815, when the dreaded order for its
disbanding arrived. Before this became an accomplished fact the escape
of Napoleon from Elba, and the consequent war with France, put a stop
to further reductions. The 3rd Batt. 14th was ordered to Belgium.
Being composed chiefly of very young recruits, the 14th were ordered
to Antwerp to join the garrison there, but through their colonel’s
personal application to Gen. Lord Hill, this order was countermanded
by Wellington himself, who inspected the regt. from the window of his
hotel at Brussels. “They are a very pretty little battalion,” said he
to Lord Hill; “tell them they may join the grand division as they
wish.” And so it came to pass that the “peasants,” as the battalion of
_young bucks_ were waggishly styled, took part in the “combat of
giants.”
Footnote 1:
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