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
[12] John Betty 7 Mar. 1810 │
[13] Andrew Gardner 30 Sept. 1813 │
ENSIGNS. │
[14] Wm. Kater, W. 22 Apr. 1813 │
[15] John Ditmas, W. 3 June, 1813 │
[16] Thos. Smith, W. 24 June, 1813 │
Samuel Ireland, K. 25 Aug. 1815 │
[17] Tobias Handcock, W. 4 May, 1815 │
QUARTERMASTER. │
[18] Thomas Taylor 26 Sept. 1805 │
ASSISTANT-SURGEONS. │
[19] Gerald Fitzgerald 25 Apr. 1811 │
[20] Thomas Mostyn 19 Dec. 1811 │
_Facings buff._ _Lace gold._
Footnote I:
This regt. had just returned from active service in America. Out of
698 men, this regt. lost 480 at Waterloo, having been almost blown to
pieces when standing in square above the sandpit on the Charleroi
road.
Footnote 1:
Afterwards Maj.-Gen. Hare, C.B. and K.H., Gov. of the Eastern District
of the Cape of Good Hope. Began his military career as ensign in the
Tarbet Fencibles, when he volunteered with 300 men into the regulars,
and joined 69th Regt. Embarked for the Helder, and served in that
campaign under the Duke of York. Served under Abercromby in Egypt.
Also in Naples, Sicily, Calabria, and the Pa. Bt. lt.-col. for
Waterloo. Lt.-col. of this regt. 31st March, 1825. D. on his passage
home from the Cape in March, 1847.
Footnote 2:
His full name was John Montmorency Tucker. Exchanged as capt. to 8th
Foot, 23rd May, 1816. Quitted the service before 1824. D. at Huggens’s
Military Asylum, Northfleet, Kent, 22nd Feb., 1852.
Footnote 3:
Afterwards Gen. George _Macdonald_, Col.-in-Chf. 16th Foot, who lived
to be “Father of the British Army.” Entered the army in 1805; joined
the Expedition to Hanover in 1805; the Army in Sicily in 1806; the
Expedition to Naples in 1810, and was present at the capture of Ischia
and Procida; returned to Sicily in 1811; was subsequently employed in
Spain, and was present at the battle of Castalla and siege of
Tarragona; afterwards served in Canada. He was wounded no less than
three times at Waterloo. Commissions dated: Ensign, Sept. 5, 1805;
Lt., July 25, 1806; Capt., August 17, 1815; Maj., 31st Aug., 1830;
Lt.-Col., 1837; Col., 1851; Maj.-Gen., 1855; Lt.-Gen., 1863; Gen.,
1871.
Footnote 4:
Placed on h. p. 25th April, 1816. Living 1830.
Footnote 5:
Capt. 46th Foot, 17th Feb., 1837. Bt.-major same year. Living 1846.
Footnote 6:
D. from wounds received at Waterloo. 2nd son of John Fortescue, of
24th Foot, who was at the taking of Quebec. The above m., 1798,
Honoria Oliver, and had issue.
Footnote 7:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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