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
Afterwards maj. 23rd Fusiliers. Lt.-col. unattached 1837. Living 1846.
Footnote 7:
Placed on h. p. 25th March, 1816. Bn. 1780. Served in Egypt. At
capture of Copenhagen, 1807. Eldest son of Samuel Adams, by Eliz.,
dau. of Alex. Leslie. M., 1805, Louisa, dau. of N. Peers, and had
issue. D. 11th Feb. 1836.
Footnote 8:
Exchanged as capt. to 38th Foot, in 1822. Out of the army before 1829.
Footnote 9:
Placed on h. p. 5th April, 1816. Afterwards Capt. J.L. White, late of
the Ionian Islands Militia, a Military Knight of Windsor (Royal
Foundation). Served with the expedition to the Elbe and Weser, under
Lord Cathcart, and in numerous battles in the Pa., including Almeida,
Ciudad Rodrigo, storming of Badajoz, Salamanca, capture of Madrid.
Also served in Flanders and France; was present at the attack on
Merxem, the bombardment of Antwerp, and the siege of Bergen-op-Zoom,
the storming of Cambray, and capture of Paris. Living 1874.
Footnote 10:
3rd son of the Rt. Hon. Sir George Hewett, Bart., of Nethersall, co.
Leicester, by Julia, dau. of the late John Johnson, of Blackheath,
Kent. Bn. 1791. Exchanged as capt. to Rifle Brigade 14th Aug., 1823.
Retd. as maj. from latter regt. 19th Aug., 1828. Lt.-col. unattached
list same date. M. in June, 1826, Sarah, 2nd dau. of Gen. Sir James
Duff. D. at his residence, Southampton, in Oct., 1891. He was the last
of the Waterloo commissioned officers.
Footnote 11:
Capt. 6th Sept., 1821. Serving in 1830.
Footnote 12:
Reduced with the battalion in 1816.
Footnote 13:
Reduced with the battalion in 1816.
Footnote 14:
Reduced with the battalion in 1816.
Footnote 15:
Lieut. 31st Foot 18th March, 1822. Capt. 11th June, 1833. Major 23rd
Dec., 1842. Out of the regt. before 1850.
Footnote 16:
Lieut. John _Nicholson_ was placed on h. p. 25th March, 1816. Living
1846.
Footnote 17:
H. p. 25th March, 1816.
Footnote 18:
H. p. from 27th Foot 25th June, 1818. Living 1846.
Footnote 19:
H. p. 25th March, 1816.
Footnote 20:
Lieut. 26th June, 1815. Lieut. 48th Foot 18th July, 1816. Capt. 8th
June, 1825. Serving in 1830.
Footnote 21:
H. p. 25th March, 1816.
Footnote 22:
Robert Burton Newenham quitted the service before 1823. He appears to
have been a grandson of Sir Edward Newenham, knt., who m. Grace, dau.
of Sir Charles Burton, Bart.
Footnote 23:
A certain Charles Fraser, who had served at Waterloo, was appointed
Ens. and Lieut. in 3rd Foot Guards, 3rd July, 1815, and was promoted
Lieut. and Capt. 25th Feb., 1819.
Footnote 24:
Ret. before 1st Jan. 1816.
Footnote 25:
Serving in 1817. Out of the regt. before 1824.
Footnote 26:
Capt. h. p. 67th Foot 10th Sept., 1825. Bt.-major 28th June, 1838.
Major 14th Foot 28th Aug., 1840. H. p. 3rd Apr. 1846. Living 1855.
Footnote 27:
Wounded at the taking of Cambray. Lieut. 27th Jan., 1823. Capt. h. p.
1838. D. in 1851.
Footnote 28:
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