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
Privates William Storrie and J. Liddle, of Capt. Vernor’s Troop, are not
mentioned in the above Muster Roll, having been returned as killed 18th
June. They rejoined 19th Sept., 1815, from a French prison, the former
having been wounded and his horse killed.
Footnote 1:
M. Nelson became regt. sergt.-maj. 25th March, 1825.
Footnote 2:
Alex. Gardner was promoted as troop sergt.-maj. 1st Jan., 1826.
Footnote 3:
John Dickson became a troop sergt.-maj. He d. at Nunhead Lane, Surrey,
16th July, 1880, aged 90.
Footnote 4:
Robert Wallace, a troop sergt.-maj. 2nd March, 1826, and in 1872 was a
messenger in the Queen’s Body Guard.
Footnote 5:
William Swan became a regt. sergt.-maj., and d. as such, March, 1825.
Footnote 6:
Corp. John Mair rejoined from a French prison 1st Sept., 1815,
supposed to have been killed 18th June.
PART III.
NON-COMMISSIONED OFFICERS AND PRIVATES
AT WATERLOO WHO SUBSEQUENTLY
RECEIVED COMMISSIONS.
1ST LIFE GUARDS.
Corporal-Major Robert Falconer.
Appointed quartermaster same regt. 2nd Sept., 1836. H. p. 1847. D. Apr.,
1849.
2ND LIFE GUARDS.
John Ellington.
Appointed quartermaster 19th June, 1815.
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ROYAL HORSE GUARDS.
Corporal-Major Andrew Heartley.
Served in the Pa. Appointed quartermaster 12th Dec., 1822. H. p. 1831.
D. Feb. 1861 as a Military Knight of Windsor.
Carter Fairbrother.
Appointed quartermaster 7th Nov., 1829. D. Feb., 1852.
John Frost.
Appointed quartermaster 31st May, 1828. D. Apr., 1852.
Wm. Emmett.
Appointed quartermaster 25th Sept., 1828. H. p. 1831.
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1ST DRAGOON GUARDS.
Sergt.-Major Richard Hollis.
Appointed adjt. to above regt, 8th July, 1836. Lieut. 12th Jan., 1838.
Lieut, Rl. Canadian Rifles 24th Oct., 1845. D. in Canada as a retd.
capt. in 1856.
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1ST DRAGOONS.
Corporal Francis Stiles.
This brave soldier was promoted sergt. in the 1st Dns., and aftds.
Ensign in the 6th West India Regt. (commission dated 11th April, 1816),
for the gallantry he displayed at Waterloo, in helping Capt. Clark of
the same regt. to capture the Eagle of the 105th French Regt. The
following letter, copied from the original in the United Service Museum,
throws additional light on the above exploit:—
IPSWICH BARRACKS, _31st Jan., 1816_.
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