The Waterloo Roll Call: With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes

Name: The Waterloo Roll Call: With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes
Author: Dalton, Charles

Dalton, Charles

Great Britain. Army -- Registers; Waterloo, Battle of, Waterloo, Belgium, 1815

Barrington Price commenced his career in the 43rd Regt., and was
    present at Vimiero and Corunna. Capt. 102nd Regt. 1811; h. p. 50th,
    1815. D. in London, 21st Jan., 1816. Grandson of Robert Price, of
    Foxley, who married, in June, 1746, Sarah, dau. of John, 1st Visct.
    Barrington. It is worthy of note that it was a Welsh gentleman of
    the name of Price who was the first to smoke tobacco in the streets
    of London.

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                          LIEUTENANT-GENERAL.

Sir Henry Clinton, G.C.B.

    2nd son of Sir H. Clinton, K.C.B., the C.-in-C. of the Brit. forces
    in America during the war, by Harriet, dau. and co-heir of Thos.
    Carter. Received the thanks of Parliament for his services at
    Waterloo. M., in 1799, 2nd dau. of Francis, Lord Elcho. D. s. p.
    11th Dec., 1829.

                             AIDES-DE-CAMP.

Capt. F. Dawkins, 1st Ft. Gds.

    4th son of Henry Dawkins, M.P. for Aldborough, by Augusta, dau. of
    Gen. Sir H. Clinton, Commander of the forces in North America. Bn.
    1796. M., 1836, Ann, eldest dau. of Gen. Sir Howard Douglas, Bart.,
    and had issue. Dep. Q.-M.-G. in the Ionian Islands, 1837. Col. in
    the army, 1841. D. 1847.

Capt. J. Gurwood, 10th Hussars, W.

    As a subaltern in 52nd Regt., commanded the forlorn hope, at the
    lesser breach, at the assault on Ciudad Rodrigo, and received a
    severe wound in his head. On this occasion he took the Governor,
    Gen. Barrié, prisoner, whose sword was presented to Gurwood by
    Wellington. Came of poor but honest parents in the East Riding of
    Yorkshire. Was a frequent visitor at Langton Hall, near Malton, the
    seat of his friend, Col. (aftds. Maj.-Gen.) Norcliffe, K.H., who
    persuaded Gurwood to sit to Morton, the painter, for his portrait,
    which is still at Langton. Editor of _The Wellington Dispatches_.
    C.B. and Col. Dep. Lt. of the Tower. D. at Brighton, 25 Dec., 1843.
    Bd. in the Tower Chapel.

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                          LIEUTENANT-GENERAL.

Chas., Count Alten, K.C.B.

    Served throughout the Par. War with the German Legion. Specially
    mentioned in the Waterloo dispatch. Aftds. Minister of War and
    Inspector-Gen. Hanoverian army.

                             AIDES-DE-CAMP.

Lt. W. Havelock, 43rd Foot, W.

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The Waterloo Roll Call: With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes

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