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
Prussians, two days after Waterloo, surrender all the French guns
which had been captured by the British, and which the rapacious
Prussians had annexed, and “regularly parked with Prussian sentries.”
Frazer’s interesting letters from the Pa. and the Netherlands were
published in 1859. These letters stamp the writer as a thorough
soldier, a perfect gentleman, a delightful companion, and a modest and
unassuming man, possessing a heart that could feel for others’ woes.
He m., in 1809, Emma, youngest dau. of James Lynn, of Woodbridge, in
Suffolk, and had issue two sons. He d. as col., 11th June, 1835, at
Woolwich, whilst holding the appointment of Director of the Royal
Laboratory.
Footnote 3:
One of the “Macdonalds of Glencoe.” Commanded a troop of R.H.A. in the
Pa. C.B. for Waterloo. Was entertained at a public banquet at
Edinburgh on 18th June, 1816. Maj.-gen. 1837. D. at Leamington 21st
May, 1840.
Footnote 4:
Retired on h. p. as 2nd capt., 1st July, 1822. 3rd son of Edward
Pakenham, M.P. for co. Donegal, by Catherine, dau. of Chambre
Ponsonby-Barker. Bn. 3rd Feb., 1789. D. about 1863.
Footnote 5:
Son of John May, Esq., storekeeper of the Ordnance, Fort George,
Guernsey; lineally descended from Thos. May, the poet (of the family
of Mays, of Mayfield, county Sussex). Bn. 1778. Md. 1819 the only
child of Robt. Broff, Esq., formerly governor of Bencoolen, Sumatra.
Major-Genl. in the army 1838. Was a colonel in the R.A., in which he
served from 1795. Recd. the gold cross and three clasps for his
services at Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, San Sebastian, Nivelle,
Nive, and Toulouse. Was given the order of St. Anne of Russia, 2nd
class, for his services at Quatre Bras and Waterloo, also nominated a
knight of the Tower and Sword of Portugal, in 1815, for his services
in the Peninsula. K.C.B. 1815. K.C.H. 1822. Sir John was employed
afloat in bomb service from 1st Dec., 1797, to the 16th April, 1801.
Present at Copenhagen in 1807. He recd. two musket balls through the
left thigh when charging the French rearguard on the morning after the
battle of Salamanca, and a violent contusion at Vittoria. D., 8th May,
1847, in London. Above information communicated by Mrs. Gibbons,
great-niece of Sir John May, K.C.B.
Footnote 6:
Afterwards bt. maj. and K.H. Maj., unattached list, 12th Dec., 1826.
D. in Guernsey, 15th July, 1844.
Footnote 7:
A scion of the Tipperary family, and cousin of the late Baron
Bloomfield, the diplomatist. Was attaché at Stockholm for some years.
G.C.B. Gen. and col.-commandant R.H.A. D. 1st Aug., 1880, in London,
unm.
Footnote 8:
Retired by sale of his commission, as 2nd capt., 9th April, 1825,
after being some years on temporary h. p.
Footnote 9:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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