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
Had his horse killed under him at Quatre Bras. D. as bt.-maj. at
Fordwich, Canterbury, 28th Dec., 1834.
Footnote 3:
Was attached to Capt. Cleeves’s German battery at the battle of Ligny,
and recd. a wound, which proved mortal, on 18th June, 1815.
Footnote 4:
Was near Picton when the latter was killed at Waterloo, and was the
last survivor of Rogers’s Waterloo Battery. Was superintendent at
Shoeburyness during the Crimean War. D. as maj.-gen., retd. f. p.,
24th Oct., 1876.
ROYAL ARTILLERY OFFICERS AT WATERLOO WHO WERE UNATTACHED.
FIRST LIEUTENANTS.
[1] Wm. Lemoine.
[2] Edward Trevor.
Footnote 1:
Afterwards maj. retd. p., 1840. D. 21st Oct., 1874.
Footnote 2:
“Belonged to Capt. Tyler’s Company (6 Co. 5th Batt.) in 1815. The co.
was at Antwerp in June, 1815, but Lieut. Trevor was unattached at
Waterloo.” (Communicated by Lieut. Hubert Trevor, grandson of above
officer.) Aftds. major-gen. retd. f. p. Md., 11th June, 1827, Anne,
2nd dau. of G. Goulding. D. at Plymouth, 22nd Nov., 1878.
The following R.A. officers received the Waterloo medal, but “chaotic
confusion” has left a doubt as to whether they served at Waterloo, or
were with the reserve forces on 18th June, 1815:—
FIRST LIEUTENANTS.
[1] Edward Wm. Wood.
[2] George Silvester Maule.
SECOND LIEUTENANTS.
[3] Henry Dunnicliffe.
[4] Thos. Watkis.
[5] Wm. How Hennis.
[6] Chas. Geo. Kett.
[7] Gustavus T. Hume.
Footnote 1:
In Capt. Ilbert’s company at Brussels in June, 1815. D. at Gibraltar,
25th Nov., 1826.
Footnote 2:
In Capt. Ilbert’s company at Brussels in June, 1815. Served on board a
gunboat in the Adriatic 1812. Served in Spain 1813. 2nd capt. 31st
July, 1832. D. at Greenwich, 18th Oct., 1839.
Footnote 3:
Retd. h. p. 1st Apr., 1819. D. at Richmond, 8th Apr., 1866.
Footnote 4:
1st Lieut. 1st Aug., 1815. D. at the Cape of Good Hope 29th Apr.,
1828.
Footnote 5:
Retd. on f. p. as lt.-col. 1851. Attained rank of lt.-gen. retd. list
1868, and d. at Boulogne 14th Dec., 1872.
Footnote 6:
1st Lieut. 30th Sept., 1816. Retd. f. p. 4th March, 1835. D. 14th
Sept., 1841.
Footnote 7:
In Capt. Ilbert’s company at Brussels in June, 1815. 1st Lieut. 21st
Nov., 1816. Purchased a cornetcy in 15th Lt. Dragoons, 16th Dec.,
1819. Lieut. 7th Aug., 1823. Capt. 10th June, 1824. H. p. 1829.
Probably belonged to a collateral branch of “Hume, of Castle Hume,”
co. Fermanagh.
CORPS OF ROYAL ARTILLERY DRIVERS.[R]
Rank in the
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