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
Retd. 1821. D. at Edinburgh, 5th Dec., 1838.
Footnote 13:
H. p. 1819. D. at Edinburgh, 15th June, 1846.
Footnote 14:
Capt. 12th Dec., 1822. Maj. 3rd Dec., 1829. H. p. 4th May, 1832. D. at
Maidstone, as bt. lt.-col., in Jan., 1855.
Footnote 15:
Afterwards capt. and bt.-maj. same regt. D. 1829.
Footnote 16:
Quitted the service as lieut. in 1825, and d. at Inverness, 15th Feb.,
1832.
Footnote 17:
Afterwards maj. in same regt. Promoted lt.-col. on unattached list
15th Aug., 1826. Eldest son of John Brander, of Pitgavenny House,
Elgin, by Margaret, dau. of Alexander Brander, Provost of Elgin. M.,
Jan., 1834, Margaret Browne. J.P. and D.L. for co. Elgin. D. s. p.,
1854, at Pitgavenny.
Footnote 18:
Capt. h. p. 1827. D. in 1833, while serving with the Rl. African
Corps.
Footnote 19:
Killed at Quatre Bras. Son of the Rev. John Gordon, of Duffus, N.B.
Footnote 20:
Adjt. 14th Sept., 1815. Capt. h. p. 13th Feb., 1827. D. as capt. 48th
Foot, at Chatham, Apr., 1833.
Footnote 21:
Retd. 1826. D. in Skye, 1827.
Footnote 22:
Capt. 3rd Dec., 1829. D. at Sterling 13th Feb., 1832.
Footnote 23:
D. as lieut. h. p. unattached, 1875, as a military Knight of Windsor.
Footnote 24:
Retired on h. p. 25th Oct., 1821. D. at Stratford, Essex, 13th June,
1827.
Footnote 25:
Bn. 3rd April, 1790, at Greenock. His father was a merchant, and his
mother, Margaret MacGregor, a descendant of the Glengyle family.
Entered the army from the militia. Accompanied the 1st Batt. 42nd
Highlanders to the Pa.; was present at Salamanca, the siege of Burgos,
storming of St. Michael, the retreat to Portugal, and at all the
actions in the Pyrenees. Was wounded at Burgos, and again severely at
Waterloo. On the reduction of the army after Waterloo, he joined the
94th (the old Scots Brigade), and, on a further reduction, was
appointed to the 8th Rl. Veteran Batt. Capt. Orr was Superintendent of
the late Scottish Naval and Military Academy for thirty years. M. in
1816, Jane, 2nd dau. of Alex. Rollock, of Glasgow, and had issue. D.
7th Dec., 1879.
Footnote 26:
H. p. 25th March, 1817.
Footnote 27:
Killed at Quatre Bras. Eldest son of George Gerard, jun., of
Midstrath, N.B.
Footnote 28:
Of Balmakewan. Attained rank of lt.-col. h. p., and d. in Oct., 1851.
Footnote 29:
H. p. 1825. D. at Edinburgh, 1835.
Footnote 30:
H. p. 25th March, 1817.
Footnote 31:
H. p. 26th Aug., 1819. D. 1852.
Footnote 32:
Left the regt. in 1818. D. at Perth in July, 1829.
Footnote 33:
H. p. 1829. D. in London, 27th Dec., 1847.
Footnote 34:
H. p. 1835. D. at Chatham, 1839.
Footnote 35:
H. p. 1818. D. at Perth, 2nd Jan., 1837.
44TH (OR THE EAST ESSEX) REGIMENT OF FOOT.
(_2nd Battalion._)
Rank in the
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