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
A Pa. hero, mentioned in the records of this regt.
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18TH HUSSARS.
Sergt. John Taylor.
Belonged to Capt. Ellis’s troop. In the charge at Waterloo he made a cut
at the head of one of the French cuirassiers, which had no other effect
on the Frenchman than to induce him to cry out, in derision, “Ha! ha!”
and to return a severe blow at the sergt., which was admirably parried,
and then Taylor thrust his sabre into the mouth of the cuirassier, who
immediately fell, and the conqueror cried, “Ha! ha!”
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COLDSTREAM GUARDS.
Sergt. John Graham, Light Company, 2nd Batt.
Distinguished himself in the defence of Hougomont, and by his great
personal strength was of great assistance in helping to close the
courtyard gate against the French. “At a later period of the day, when
in the ranks along the garden wall facing the wood, and when the
struggle was most severe in that quarter, he asked Lt.-Col. Macdonell’s
permission to fall out. The colonel, knowing the character of the man,
expressed his surprise at the request made at such a moment. Graham
explained that his brother lay wounded in one of the buildings then on
fire; that he wished to remove him to a place of safety, and that he
would then lose no time in rejoining the ranks. The request was granted;
Graham succeeded in snatching his brother from the terrible fate which
menaced him, laid him in a ditch in rear of the enclosure, and true to
his word, was again at his post.”—Col. Mackinnon’s _History of the
Coldstreams_. Was selected in August, 1815, for the pension granted by
the Rev. — Norcross, Rector of Framlingham, “to the most deserving
soldier at Waterloo.” D., at Kilmainham, 23rd April, 1843. He was a
native of Cloona, co. Monaghan.
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3RD FOOT GUARDS.
[1] Sergt.-Maj. Ralph Fraser.
[2] ” Brice MʻGregor.
Footnote 1:
Aided in closing the gate at Hougomont. Served in Egypt in 1801. “In
the landing at Aboukir Bay, on 8th March, the boat in which Corporal
Fraser was, containing sixty persons, were all destroyed by the
enemy’s fire excepting fifteen.” Served in Hanover, at Copenhagen, and
in the Pa., and was twice badly wounded. Discharged in Dec., 1818.
Aftds. a bedesman in Westminster Abbey. Living in 1861.
Footnote 2:
A native of Argyllshire. Enlisted at Glasgow in 1799. Aided in barring
the door at Hougomont, and being very strong, was of much service in
the gallant defence of that farmhouse. Shot a cuirassier dead who
attacked him, and rode into the courtyard on the Frenchman’s horse.
Discharged in 1821 with a handsome pension. Appointed one of the
Yeomen of the Guard. D. 27th Nov., 1816.
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