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
Served at the siege of Copenhagen in 1807, expedition to Sweden 1808,
Corunna campaign same year, Walcheren expedition and siege of Flushing
1809. Served in Canada during the rebellion in 1837–1838, and for his
services at Prescott, in Upper Canada, in Nov., 1838, received the
thanks of the lt.-gov. and a bt. lt.-colonelcy. The Editor is indebted
to this officer’s son, the late Col. Forbes Macbean, formerly comg.
92nd Highlanders, Sergt.-at-Arms to Her late Majesty, for the
following interesting particulars regarding his family: “My
great-great-grandfather was minister of the High Church (Presbyterian)
at Inverness for upwards of forty years. One of his sons (Forbes) was
a maj.-gen. of R.A.; two of his sons were—one (Frederick) col.-comg.
6th Foot, the other maj. of the 14th and 71st Regts. The eldest had
six sons, all in the army, viz.: Sir William, K.C.B. and K.T.S., gen.
and col.-in-chf. 92nd Highlanders; Frederick, K.H., col. 84th Regt.;
Forbes, col. R.A.; Archibald, lt.-gen. R.A.; Alfred, capt. 93rd
Highlanders; Alexander, lt. 83rd Regt. The last two died young. When
their father took the youngest to the Duke of York, C.-in-C., to ask
for a commission for him, the duke replied, ‘Yes, and if you had six
more sons they should all have commissions.’ In the retreat on
Corunna, my uncle Archibald, then in the Horse Artillery, picked up
his brother Frederick off the roadside, very seriously wounded, and
carried him on a gun-carriage into Corunna, and so saved his life.”
Forbes Macbean attained the rank of bt. col., and d. (on f. p. retd.
list) in Cleveland, co. York, 19th June, 1853.
Footnote 3:
D. as col. R.A. at Dinan, France, 20th July, 1857.
Footnote 4:
Retd. on h. p. as 2nd capt., 22nd Jan., 1834. D. at Terrick Hall,
Whitechurch, 20th Jan., 1859.
Footnote 5:
Afterwards lt.-gen. on the retd. f. p. list. D. in 1871.
MAJOR T. ROGERS’S BRIGADE.[Q]
Rank in the
——————
CAPTAIN. Regiment.│Army.
[1] Thos. Rogers 1 June, 1806 │Maj., 4 June, 1814
SECOND CAPTAIN. │
[2] Thos. Scott 20 June, 1812 │
FIRST LIEUTENANT. │
[3] Robert Manners, W. 13 Mar. 1811 │
SECOND LIEUTENANT. │
[4] Richard Goodwin Wilson 17 Dec. 1812 │
Footnote Q:
This list is imperfect, but is an improvement on the list given in
Col. Duncan’s _History of the R.A._ in so far that the Editor has been
able to add two officers to his list.
Footnote 1:
Major Rogers’s battery was hotly engaged at Quatre Bras, and rendered
valuable service. C.B. for Waterloo. D. as col., 9th Aug., 1839, at
Woolwich.
Footnote 2:
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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