The Waterloo Roll Call: With Biographical Notes and Anecdotes — John Shaqi
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
Son of Lt.-Gen. Wm. Neville Cameron, H.E.I.C.S., by Charlotte, dau.
of Sir Wm. Gordon, 7th Bart. of Embo, co. Sutherland. Capt. Wm.
Gordon Cameron lost his right arm at Waterloo and had other severe
wounds. K.H., made bt. lt.-col., 7th July, 1825, and placed on h. p.
the following day. D. at Christchurch, Hants, 26th May, 1856.
Capt. F. Read, Rl. Staff Corps.
Francis Read d. a capt. in the same regt., 4th June, 1829. He
appears to have been a relative of Lt.-Col. Wm. Read, who d. at
Madras, 21st Aug., 1827, whilst holding the appointment of D.Q.M.G.
Another of the same family (Constantine) was a Lieut. in Rl. Staff
Corps, 1830.
Lt. P.T. de Barrailler, 33rd Foot.
Peter Toussaint de Barrailler was, as his name implies, of Gallic
origin. The irony of fate decreed that he should use his sword
against the Gallic army in 1815. His name disappeared from the Army
List a few years after Waterloo.
Lt. Basil Jackson, Rl. Staff Corps.
The following memoir of this distinguished veteran appeared in the
_Illustrated London News_ of 9th Nov., 1889:—“A gallant military
veteran, who has died at the great age of ninety-four, was reckoned
one of the four surviving officers of the British Army present at
the battle of Waterloo. Colonel Basil Jackson, born at Glasgow on
June 27, 1795, was son of Major Basil Jackson; he entered the
Military College in 1808, and, having received his commission as
ensign, did not join a Line regiment, but was transferred to the
Royal Staff Corps, where he learned the duties of the
Quartermaster-General’s Department and engineering. In that branch
of the Army he was employed in Holland and Belgium, in 1814 and
1815, and in the Waterloo campaign did good service in clearing the
roads, and on the Duke of Wellington’s Staff. He accompanied the
army to Paris, and was afterwards selected to go to St. Helena with
Napoleon. In that island he remained till about a year and a half
before Napoleon’s death. At a later period he was employed in Nova
Scotia and in Canada, taking part in the construction of the Rideau
Canal. He held the Professorship of Military Surveying in the East
India Company’s Military College at Addiscombe during twenty years.
After retiring from the army he lived at Hillsborough, near Ross, in
Herefordshire.” M. 28th March, 1828, the dau. of Col. Muttlebury,
C.B.
Lt. A. Brauns, Rl. Staff Corps.
Probably a son of the Col. John Brauns, of the German Legion, who
was killed at the battle of Talavera. The above officer bore the
names of “Augustus Christ. Gotleib.” Was placed on h. p. as lieut.,
in 1819. Living 1846.
COMMANDANT AT HEAD-QUARTERS.
Col. Sir Colin Campbell, K.C.B., 2nd Ft. Gds.
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