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
Rank in the
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CAPTAIN. Regiment.│Army.
[1] Samuel Bolton, K. 20 Dec. 1814 │
SECOND CAPTAIN. │
[2] Charles Napier, W. 16 Mar. 1812 │
FIRST LIEUTENANTS. │
[3] George Pringle 1 June, 1806 │
[4] Wm. C. Anderson 1 Aug. 1808 │
[5] Charles Spearman, W. 30 Aug. 1812 │
[6] Wm. Sharpin 20 Dec. 1814 │
SECOND LIEUTENANT. │
[7] Burke Cuppage 17 Dec. 1812 │
Footnote 1:
This officer was killed towards the close of the battle, when
directing the fire of his battery against the Imperial Guards in their
historical advance.
Footnote 2:
Succeeded Capt. Bolton in the command of the battery, and by
Wellington’s orders gave the advancing French column “a salvo of grape
and canister” which did terrible execution among their devoted ranks.
A few minutes afterwards Capt. Napier recd. eight wounds from the
bursting of a shrapnel shell. On 21st Jan., 1819, recd. a tardy bt. of
maj. for his services at Waterloo. Retd. by the sale of his
commission, 20th March, 1827. D. at Lisburn, 20th June, 1849.
Footnote 3:
Retd. on f. p. as bt. maj., 16th May, 1839. D. in Edinburgh, 23rd
March, 1842.
Footnote 4:
Afterwards maj.-gen. D. in Edinburgh, 30th Aug., 1865.
Footnote 5:
D. at Brussels, 27th June, 1815, of wounds recd. at Waterloo. Eldest
son of Charles Spearman, of Thornley Hall, co. Durham, by Sarah, dau.
and heir of Samuel Brooke, of Birchington, Kent.
Footnote 6:
Retd. on h. p. 1st July, 1823. D. 23rd July, 1857.
Footnote 7:
Afterwards Gen. Sir Burke Cuppage, K.C.B., and col.-comdt. R.A. Son of
Lt.-Gen. Wm. Cuppage, R.A., by the widow of Maj. Cairnes, 39th Foot,
whose son’s death has already been recorded. D. 19th April, 1877.
MAJOR W. LLOYD’S BRIGADE.
(_Reduced in 1817._)
Rank in the
——————
CAPTAIN. Regiment.│Army.
[1] Wm. Lloyd, W. 13 June, 1807 │Maj., 4 June, 1814
SECOND CAPTAIN. │
[2] Samuel Rudyerd 24 Mar. 1809 │
FIRST LIEUTENANTS. │
[3] Fortescue Wells 1 Feb. 1808 │
[4] Samuel Phelps 18 Sept. 1809 │
SECOND LIEUTENANT. │
[5] Wm. H. Harvey, W. 13 Dec. 1813 │
Footnote 1:
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