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
H. p. 1817.
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H. p. 1817.
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H. p. 1817.
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H. p. 1817.
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H. p. 1817.
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H. p. 1818.
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D. in 1827.
Footnote 14:
Capt. 16th Sept., 1827. Serving in 1830.
Footnote 15:
H. p. 1817. Capt. unattached 28th Aug., 1827. Living in 1874.
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H. p. 1817.
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D. 1819.
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H. p. 1817.
Footnote 19:
H. p. 1819, 59th Foot.
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Served in the Pa., and was twice wounded, when leading the ladder
party in the escalade of the St. Vincent Bastion, at the siege of
Badajoz. Sev. wnded. at the siege of Burgos, when acting as Assistant
Engineer in the storm of the first line of the Castle, 4th Oct., 1812.
At the bombardment of Antwerp, and assault on Bergen-op-Zoom. Served
in the Mahratta War of 1817–18, and was present at battle of
Maheidpore and siege of Asserghur. Commanded the left wing of the 63rd
Regt. in India for some years as maj. and bt. lt.-col. Received the
Legion of Honour for services rendered on board the French ship
_Benguile_, on passage from India to Europe in August, 1831. He was
also presented with the Freedom of the City of Dublin. Joined the
corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, 1st Aug., 1847, and was subsequently made
a Knight of Windsor. D. at Windsor Castle, 6th Feb., 1865, aged 72.
Footnote 21:
H. p. 1823.
Footnote 22:
H. p. 1818.
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D. 1819.
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Maj., 1st West India Regt., 3rd March, 1843, and lt.-col. of same
regt., 1st March, 1848, Col 1854. Received the Par. War medal with 4
clasps. D. in Sept., 1855.
Footnote 25:
Belonged to the Grenadier company. Ensign (aftds. Major) Macready in
his interesting journal of the campaign of 1815 (printed in
_Historical Records of the XXX Regt._, says: “Lockwood of ours had
gone home with a silver plate in his skull, on which was engraved
‘bomb proof.’” H. p. 25th Aug., 1816. Living in 1846.
Footnote 26:
Exchanged to 28th Foot, 9th Dec., 1819. Major 27th Foot 22nd March,
1827. Serving in 1830.
Footnote 27:
H. p. 1817.
Footnote 28:
H. p. 1817.
Footnote 29:
Thomas Gybbon-_Monypenny_ was descended from the ancient Scotch family
of Monypenny, of Pitmillie, co. Fife; but his ancestor, Capt. James
Monypenny, R.N., settled in Kent about 1714, since which date this
branch of the family has chiefly resided in Kent. His father was Thos.
Monypenny, of Rye, Sussex. Placed on h. p. 1817. M., 8th Jan., 1818,
Silvestra Rose, eldest dau. of Robert Monypenny, of Merrington Place,
Rolvenden, Kent, and had issue. Lt.-col. of the West Kent Militia.
M.P. for Rye, 1837–41. D. 16th Jan., 1854.
Footnote 30:
H. p. 1816.
Footnote 31:
H. p. 19th Feb., 1818. Staff officer of pensioners at Amherstburg,
Canada West, before 1836. Drowned while fishing in the Detroit river
5th May, 1854.
Footnote 32:
H. p. 1816 from 28th Foot.
Footnote 33:
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