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
ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY.
STAFF.
[1] Col. Sir George Adam Wood, Kt., commanding.
[2] Lt.-Col. Sir Augustus Frazer, K.C.B., commanding Royal Horse
Artillery.
[3] Lt.-Col. A. Macdonald, commanding six troops of Horse Artillery
attached to the Cavalry.
[4] Adjt. Capt. Wm. Pakenham, R.H.A.
[5] Lt.-Col. Sir John May, A.A. General.
[6] Capt. H. Baynes, W., Brigade Major.
[7] Lieuts. John Bloomfield and [8]George Coles, Staff-Adjts. to
Sir George Wood.
[9] Lieut. Wm. Bell, Staff-Adjt. to Sir A. Frazer.
[10] Lt.-Cols. S.G. Adye, [11] C. Gold, [12] J.S. Williamson,
and [13] J. Hawker, field officers commanding two batteries of
Foot Artillery attached to each division of the army.
[14] Major P. Drummond, field officer commanding Reserve Artillery.
[15] Lt.-Col. Sir Alexander Dickson, K.C.B., commanding Battering
Train.
Footnote 1:
Son of Adam Wood, Lt. of Capt. Coote’s Independent Company of Foot at
Landguard Fort, who d. 1773. Commanded the R.A. in Holland during the
campaign of 1814, and led one of the attacking columns at
Bergen-op-Zoom. Was knighted when proxy to Sir J.C. Sherbrooke at the
installation of the Bath. 22nd May, 1812. C.B., K.M.T., K.St.V., and
K.W. for Waterloo. A.D.C. to George IV., and K.C.H. D. a maj.-gen.,
22nd April, 1831.
Footnote 2:
Son of Col. Andrew Frazer, R.E., by Charlotte, dau. of Stillingfleet
Durnford, of the Ordnance Office. Bn at Dunkirk, 5th Sept., 1776, and
educated at the High School, Edinburgh, where he was a contemporary of
Lord Brougham. Joined the Military Academy at Woolwich in August,
1790, and became 2nd lt. R.A., 18th Sept., 1793. Served in Holland in
1794. In 1795 was appointed to the Royal Horse Artillery, and in 1799
again embarked for active service in Holland. Commanded the artillery
of the expedition against Buenos Ayres, and was present at the assault
of that city in July, 1807. In June 1811, was made bt. maj., and in
Nov., 1812, joined the British army in the Pa. Five months later was
appointed to command the Horse Artillery of Wellington’s army, and
served in this capacity until the conclusion of the war, winning for
himself, and his branch of the service, a high reputation. K.C.B. and
the gold cross, with one clasp. In the Waterloo campaign, Frazer again
commanded the R.H.A., and “his high reputation as an artillery
officer, combined with his firmness of character, prevailed on the
Duke of Wellington, who was at first not favourable to the exchange,
to permit him to substitute 9-pounders for 6-pounders in the troops of
Horse Artillery serving with the army. To this exchange, which
preceded the battle of Waterloo, may justly be ascribed much of the
success of that memorable day.” Another instance of Frazer’s firmness
of character is exhibited in the speedy way in which he made the
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