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
3rd son of John, 2nd Visct., and 1st Earl of Portarlington, by Lady
Caroline Stuart, dau. of 3rd Earl of Bute. Bn. 28th Oct. 1788.
Promoted bt.-lt.-col. 4th Dec., 1815. Placed on h. p. 17th Aug.,
1820. C.B. Assumed the additional surname of Damer 14th March, 1829.
M., 20th Aug., 1825, Mary, dau. of Lord Hugh Seymour, and had issue.
D., 14th April, 1856.
Maj. Chas. Beckwith, 95th Foot, W.
Son of Capt. John Beckwith, 23rd Lt. Dns., and nephew of Sir George
and Sir T.S. Beckwith. Bn. at Halifax, N.S., 2nd Oct., 1789. His
mother was a sister of Judge Haliburton (Sam Slick). Brigade-maj. to
the celebrated Light Division in the Pa. Lost his left leg at
Waterloo. Was a frequent visitor at Apsley House. Being one day left
alone in the Duke’s library his attention was called to Gilly’s
_Waldensee_, which book graphically described the neglected state of
the Waldensee inhabitants. His interest was touched, and soon after
he took up his abode among those “primitive Christians of the Alps.”
Beckwith did much for the good of the people, by whom he was greatly
beloved. He d. as maj.-gen. at Torre, 19th July, 1862. See _Memoir
of General Beckwith, C.B._, by M. Meille, translated, London, 1873.
Also Foster’s _Yorkshire Pedigrees_.
Capt. Jas. Shaw, 43rd Foot.
Aftds. Sir James Shaw-Kennedy, K.C.B. Bn. 1788. Educated at the
Military College at Marlow. Joined the 43rd L.I. as ens., 1805.
Served with this regt. at Copenhagen, and proceeded to the Pa. in
1808. Served at Corunna, and in 1809 was adjt. Was A.D.C. to Gen.
Robert Craufurd during 1809 and 1810. Present at siege of Ciudad
Rodrigo. “Stood with Gen. Craufurd when, in the assault of that fort
and place, he placed himself on the crest of the glacis, where he
fell mortally wounded.” Served at the siege and storming of Badajoz,
at Salamanca, and other actions. “On 18th June, 1815, he was
allowed, in presence of Wellington, to form the 3rd Division (to
which he was attached), in a new and unusual order of battle, to
meet the formidable masses of cavalry seen forming in its front, and
in this formation the division resisted, successfully, repeated
attacks of Napoleon’s cavalry.” Commanded at Calais during the three
years of the Army of Occupation. Organised the constabulary force of
Ireland. Bt. maj. for Waterloo. M., 1820, Mary, dau. of David
Kennedy, and assumed his wife’s name. D. a lt.-gen. and Col.-in-Chf.
47th Regt., 30th May, 1865.
Capt. J. Jessop, 44th Foot, W.
Served as A.D.C. to Gen. Dunlop in the Pa. The late Gen. Sir George
L’Estrange thus speaks of John Jessop in his _Recollections_
(published in 1873):—“A splendid officer, a perfect gentleman,
particularly handsome, and a capital good fellow.” Made C.B. for
Waterloo. Placed on h. p. as bt.-maj., 44th Regt., 1821. D. at
Butterley Hall, Derbyshire, in Sept., 1869, aged 90.
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