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
7th son of Geo. Hodder, of Fountainstown, co. Cork. H. p. lieut.,
1826. Living in 1855.
Footnote 24:
Lieut. 10th Aug., 1815. H. p. 25th April, 1826.
Footnote 25:
Lieut. 11th Aug., 1815. H. p. 25th Nov., 1816.
Footnote 26:
Lieut. 14th Aug., 1815. Exchanged to 2nd Foot, 25th Jan., 1825.
Serving 1830.
Footnote 27:
Afterwards served in the 1st Dragoons. Assumed the surname of
Harcourt. Placed on h. p. as cornet, 1822. D. at Bedford, 29th Dec.,
1867, aged 72.
Footnote 28:
A cadet from the Military College. Greatly distinguished himself at
Quatre Bras, where the 69th was badly cut up by Kellermann’s
Cuirassiers. He killed three cuirassiers before he himself fell
covered with 22 sabre cuts. Recovered from his wounds, and was
rewarded with an ensigncy in the 42nd Highlanders. He d. in 1831 as a
subaltern in 33rd Foot. Sir W. Butler’s _Records of 69th Regt._
(London, 1870).
Footnote 29:
Assumed the surname of Robinson. H. p. 88th Foot, 28th June, 1827.
Footnote 30:
This was “the same man who, eighteen years before, at St. Vincent, had
broken the stern galley window of the _San Nicholas_, and led the way
for Nelson to the quarter-deck of the Spanish vessel.” He appears to
have been a Scotchman, with a keen sense of humour, as, when a man was
killed by his side, by a long shot from the enemy, on the morning of
Waterloo Day, he quietly remarked, “Aweel, it is time for a
respectable non-combatant to gang awa’!”—Sir W. Butler’s _Records of
69th Regt._ D. as Qr.-mr. 69th Foot, at Cannanore, India, 1821.
71ST (HIGHLAND) REGIMENT OF FOOT (LIGHT INFANTRY).
Rank in the
——————
LIEUT.-COLONEL. Regiment.│Army.
[1] Thomas Reynell, W. 5 Aug. 1813 │Col., 4 June, 1813
MAJORS. │
[2] Arthur Jones, W. 22 June, 1809 │Lt.-Col., 4 June,
│1814
[3] Leslie Walker 2 Sept. 1813 │
CAPTAINS. │
[4] Samuel Reed 29 Sept. 1808 │29 Nov. 1806
[5] Joseph T. Pidgeon 1 Dec. 1808 │
[6] Archibald Armstrong 10 May, 1809 │
[7] Donald Campbell, W. 22 June, 1809 │
_Edmund L’Estrange_, K. 6 July, 1809 │Maj., 12 Apr. 1814
[8] Wm. Alex. Grant, W. 12 Oct. 1809 │
[9] James Henderson, W. 19 Oct. 1809 │
[10] Augustus J. MʻIntyre 17 May, 1810 │
[11] Charles Johnstone, W. 10 Dec. 1812 │Maj., 4 June, 1814
[12] Alexander Grant 15 Apr. 1813 │
LIEUTENANTS. │
[13] Joseph Barailler, W. 7 Feb. 1808 │
[14] Loftus Richards 21 Apr. 1808 │
[15] John Raleigh Elwes, W. 12 May, 1808 │
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