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
Wellington’s friend and physician for many years. “AFTER
WATERLOO.—After the battle Wellington rode to Brussels, and the first
person who entered his room on the morning of the 19th was Dr. Hume.
‘He had, as usual,’ says the doctor, ‘taken off his clothes, but his
face was covered with the dust and sweat of the previous day. He
extended his hand to me, which I held in mine while I told him of
Alexander Gordon’s death. He was much affected. I felt his tears
dropping fast upon my hand, and, looking towards him, saw them chasing
one another in a stream over his dusty cheeks. He brushed them
suddenly away with his left hand, and said to me, in a voice tremulous
with emotion—“Well, thank God, I don’t know what it is to lose a
battle, but certainly nothing can be more painful than to gain one
with the loss of so many of one’s friends.”’”—_Fifty Years’
Biographical Reminiscences_, by Lord William Lennox.
Footnote 3:
Slightly wounded at Quatre Bras, and his horse sev. wnded.
Footnote 4:
Served in the Pa. “Was the first surgeon to amputate with success at
the hip joint.” D. in Dublin in Nov., 1836.
Footnote 5:
Served in Egypt, at Maida, and in the Pa. Was surgeon to Sir John
Moore. Recd. the thanks of the Govt. for his services at Waterloo.
Inspector-Gen. of Hospitals. D. 28th June, 1850, at Instow,
Barnstaple.
Footnote 6:
Surgeon to the 7th Hussars, 7th May, 1816. H. p. 25th June, 1829, from
Rl. Waggon Train. Living 1846.
Footnote 7:
Afterwards Sir Andrew Halliday, Knt., M.D., F.R.S., and K.H. Was
educated for the Church, but finding he had a medical turn, adopted
the latter profession. Served on the medical staff both in Spain and
Portugal, and aftds. at Waterloo. Was of humble parentage, but of good
blood, being descended from “Thom Halliday, my sister’s son, so dear,”
mentioned by the great Sir William Wallace. D. at Dumfries, 7th Sept.,
1839.
Footnote 8:
Hospital assistant 8th July, 1799. Assist.-surgn. Dec., 1799. H. p.
before 1824.
Footnote 9:
D. Sept., 1852.
Footnote 10:
Entered the medical dept. 1804, but saw some of his earliest service
afloat under Lord Nelson in 1805. Present at the capture of St.
Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John in 1807. Subsequently served at Fort
Dessaix, Martinique, and Guadaloupe. Proceeded to the Pa. in 1813 and
America 1814–15. Present at the attack on New Orleans and Fort Bowyer.
Joined the army in the Netherlands in May, 1815. Present at Waterloo
and capture of Paris. H. p. 1816. Retd. in Jan., 1833. D. in London
24th Dec., 1852. Left issue a son, Lt.-Col. Robt. C.D. Bruce, h. p.
8th Foot, to whom there is a tablet in Ripon Minster.
Footnote 11:
H. p. 5th Foot 22nd Aug., 1816. Living 1852.
Footnote 12:
Assist.-Surgn. 14th Foot 23rd Dec., 1824. H. p. 15th Dec., 1825.
Living 1846.
ORDNANCE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.[S]
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