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
Troop Sergt.-Maj. Wm.
Seney.
” ” John
Laws.
[1] ” ” Matthew
Marshall, W.
Sergt. Hugh MʻMahon.
” Johnston Marlow.
Private Wm. Penfold.
” Robert Potters.
[2] ” Jeremiah Brown.
Footnote 1:
“The Enniskilleners charged in line when Marshall’s squadron dashed
into the thickest of the enemy’s phalanx, and were cut off from the
other troops of the regt. Marshall, while sabreing a cuirassier on his
right, had his bridle-arm broken by a stroke from his enemy on his
left, and had not proceeded much further when he was beset by another
crowd of French cavalry and hurled from his horse by a lance which
penetrated his side. While he was falling he received a heavy blow
across the body, and another which broke his right thigh. He lay
unconscious except when goaded into sensibility by the hoofs of the
enemy’s horses passing over his mangled body. The ground afterwards
becoming somewhat clear he espied a horse without any rider, towards
which he crawled, and was about to mount, when a French trooper
galloping up cut him down in the midst of his hopes, inflicting
several severe wounds on his body. This part of the field being again
occupied by the French, a French artilleryman made Marshall’s body a
resting-place for his foot while he rammed his gun. For two days and
three nights Marshall remained on the field with 19 lance and sabre
wounds. On the regt. returning home he was discharged with 2s. per
day. Resided at Belfast, where he was much respected. D. there, 28th
Sept., 1825.”—_Scots’ Magazine._
Footnote 2:
Born at Enniskillen 14th March, 1792. Fought at Waterloo and in the
Kaffir, Sepoy, and Maori wars. Living at Melbourne, Australia, in
1891.
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7TH HUSSARS.
Sergt.-Maj. Edward Cotton.
Had his horse killed under him at Waterloo. After being discharged from
the regt. he took up his abode at Waterloo, and became a guide to the
battlefield. Being a clever and well-educated man, he was able to
compile a very interesting little book called _A Voice from Waterloo_,
which held its own among the many accounts of the great battle. Besides
this he formed a Waterloo Museum, which has always been a great
attraction to visitors. In 1875, when the Editor was at Waterloo, the
Museum was kept by a niece of the late sergt.-maj., who d. 1st July,
1849, and was bd. in the orchard of Hougomont, by the side of Capt.
Blackwood, who fell in the battle.
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16TH LIGHT DRAGOONS.
Sergt.-Maj. Baxter, K.
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