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
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42ND REGIMENT OF FOOT.
Sergt.-Major Finlay King.
Appointed quartermaster 31st Dec., 1818. Retd. 1840. D., in Guernsey,
1842.
Armourer-Sergt. Edwd. Paton.
Appointed quartermaster 19th June, 1840. D., at Southsea, in May, 1863.
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71ST REGIMENT OF FOOT.
Thos. Creighton.
Appointed quartermaster 19th Sept., 1827. H. p. 24th Jan., 1840. D.
July, 1853.
Bernard Grant.
Ens., 82nd Foot, 28th Dec., 1832. Quartermaster 28th Aug., 1835. D. May,
1856.
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73RD REGIMENT OF FOOT.
Maurice Shea.
Bn., in County Clare, in 1794; joined the Kerry Militia 1812, and in
1813 enlisted in 73rd Regt. and went to Holland. Served under Gen.
Graham, and was at the siege of Antwerp. Was in Capt. Kennedy’s company
at Waterloo. In 1835 joined the British Legion at Cork as quartermaster,
and was subsequently promoted lieut. Was in twenty-six engagements
during the war. Received the Order of Isabella II. for his Spanish
services. D., at Sherbrooke, Canada, in March, 1892. He was the last
Waterloo survivor known.—_Army and Navy Gazette_, 2nd April, 1892.
Sergt. George Austin.
Appointed adjt. 30th Nov., 1815. H. p. 1817.
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79TH REGIMENT OF FOOT.
Sergt. Colin Macdonald.
Served throughout the Par. War with the 79th, and was twice sev. wnded.
Was again badly wounded at Waterloo. Served in Canada during the
rebellion of 1838–39. Received an ensign’s commission 30th Jan., 1835,
and appointed Town Major at Montreal. Living 1855.
Alex. Cruikshank.
Appointed quartermaster 12th Oct., 1838. H. p. 1849. Fort Major,
Edinburgh Castle, 1851.
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92ND REGIMENT OF FOOT.
Sergt.-Major Wm. Grant.
Appointed adjt. 5th Nov., 1819.
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95TH RIFLES.
(_1st Battalion._)
Fras. Feneran.
Appointed quartermaster to above regt. 1st Dec., 1823, and paymaster
95th Regt. of Foot 15th Dec., 1837. Serving as paymaster to the depôt
battalion at Parkhurst in 1860.
Sergt.-Major Robt. Fairfoot.
A Peninsular hero who had been wounded in the breach at Badajoz; had his
right fore-arm fractured by a shot on 17th June, 1815. Appointed
quartermaster to above regt. 28th Apr., 1825. D. in Sept., 1838.
Wm. Hill.
Appointed quartermaster to above batt. 25th Dec., 1826. H. p. 29th
March, 1839.
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