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
“_El chico bianco_” of the Par. War. Bn. 1795. Eldest son of Wm.
Havelock, of Ingress Park, Kent. Ensign, 43rd Regt., 12th July,
1810. K.H. Killed in action at Ramnuggur, India, 22nd Nov., 1848,
whilst commanding 14th Lt. Dragoons. The following account of the
sanguinary action with the Sikh army is given in the _Annual
Register_ for 1848:—“A more fearful sight was perhaps never
witnessed on a field of battle, for the British army stood drawn up
silent spectators of the bloody conflict of 450 sabres against an
army amounting to more than 15,000 men with heavy cannon ... the
gallant Havelock, in the front of his regt., charged amidst the
undeviated fire from the batteries of the enemy, and was almost cut
to pieces.”
Bt.-Maj. A. Heise, 2nd Lt. Batt. K.G.L.
Aftds. Lt.-Col. Sir Augustus Heise, K.C.H. D. at Tübingen, in State
of Wurtemburg, 1st Aug., 1819.
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LIEUTENANT-GENERAL.
Sir Charles Colville, G.C.B.
Commanded the Reserves at Hal, on 18th June, and was not present at
Waterloo. Commanded the British troops at the siege of Cambray, and
accompanied the allied army to Paris. 2nd son of John, 9th Baron
Colville (and father of 11th Baron), by Amelia Webber. Served in the
Pa., and was wounded when commanding the principal attack on
“Badajoz’s breeches,” 6th April, 1812. Bn. 7th Aug., 1770. M. 16th
Feb., 1818, Jane eldest dau. of Wm. Mure, of Caldwell, co. Ayr.
G.C.B.; G.C.H.; K.T.S.; Col. 5th Foot; Gen. and Gov. of Mauritius
1828. D. 27th May, 1843, at Hampstead.
AIDES-DE-CAMP.
Capt. J. Jackson, 37th Foot.
Capt. 6th Dn. Gds. 4th Dec., 1817. Aftds. Gen. Sir James Jackson,
G.C.B., and Col.-in-Chf., K.D.G. Served in the Pa. and in Arabia,
and was for some time Lt.-Gov. at the Cape of Good Hope. 3rd son of
Col. George Jackson, of Enniscoe, by Maria, only dau. and heir of
Wm. Rutledge, of Foxford, co. Mayo. D. 31st Dec., 1871.
Lt. F.W. Frankland, 2nd Foot.
Aftds. Sir Fredk. Wm. Frankland, Bart., of Thirkelby, co. York.
Descended from Oliver Cromwell, through his daughter Frances
Cromwell’s marriage with Sir John Russell, Bart. Served at
Pampeluna, the battles of the Pyrenees, Nivelle, Nive, Bidassoa, and
Toulouse. Sir Frederick m. Katharine, only dau. of Isaac Scarth, and
left at his decease, in 1878, a son, the late Sir Wm. Frankland,
Bart., R.E., of Thirkelby.
EXTRA AIDE-DE-CAMP.
Capt. Lord James Hay, 1st Ft. Gds.
2nd son of George, 7th Marquis of Tweeddale, by Lady Hannah
Maitland, dau. of 7th Lord Lauderdale. M., 1813, Eliz., only child
of James Forbes, of Seaton, co. Aberdeen. Lt.-gen. and col. 86th
Regt. D. 17th Aug., 1862, leaving issue.
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MAJOR-GENERAL.
V. Count Alten.
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