The Waterloo Roll Call
Footnote 15:
H. p. 25th March, 1816.
Footnote 16:
H. p. 25th March, 1816.
Footnote 17:
Siborne immortalises the name of this officer, in his history of the
battle of Quatre Bras, as follows:—“A French lancer gallantly charged
at the colours of the 44th, and severely wounded Ensign Christie, who
carried one of them, by a thrust of his lance, which, entering the
left eye, penetrated to the lower jaw. The Frenchman then endeavoured
to seize the standard, but the brave Christie, notwithstanding the
agony of his wound, with a presence of mind almost unequalled, flung
himself upon it—not to save himself, but to preserve the honour of his
regiment. As the colour fluttered in its fall, the Frenchman tore off
a portion of the silk with the point of his lance; but he was not
permitted to bear the fragment beyond the ranks. Both shot and
bayoneted by the nearest of the soldiers of the 44th, he was borne to
the earth, paying with the sacrifice of his life for his display of
unavailing bravery.” Promoted lieut. 26th Oct., 1815. Placed on h. p.
25th March, 1816. Living 1827.
Footnote 18:
Capt. 28th Apr., 1825. Exchanged to 14th Foot 16th Sept., 1826. Retd.
as major 1840. D. 1862.
Footnote 19:
H. p. 65th Foot 13th March, 1823.
Footnote 20:
Killed at Quatre Bras whilst carrying the King’s colours. Bn. 17th
May, 1789. 4th son of Richard Cooke, of Stourbridge, co. Tipperary, by
Mary, dau. of Jeremiah Laylor, of Barnagrotty, King’s county.
Footnote 21:
H. p. 24th Feb., 1816.
Footnote 22:
Aftds. Lt.-Col. Jas. Carnegie Webster, h. p. unattached. Severely
wounded at Quatre Bras. Living in 1876.
Footnote 23:
Lieut. 31st May, 1821. Serving 1830.
Footnote 24:
H. p. 25th March, 1816.
Footnote 25:
H. p. 25th Apr., 1816. D. Dec., 1853.
Footnote 26:
Qr.-Mr. 92nd Highrs. 3rd Sept., 1830.
51ST (OR THE 2ND YORKSHIRE WEST RIDING)
REGIMENT OF FOOT (LIGHT INFANTRY).[L]
Rank in the
——————
LIEUT.-COLONEL. Regiment.│Army.
[1] Hugh Henry Mitchell 13 June, 1811 │4 June, 1813
MAJOR. │
[2] Samuel Rice 13 July, 1809 │Lt.-Col., 22 Nov.
│1813
CAPTAINS. │
[3] John Thos. Keyt 24 June, 1804 │Maj., 4 June, 1814
[4] James Campbell 1 Aug. 1805 │
[5] William Thwaites 2 Jan. 1807 │Maj., 4 June, 1814
[6] Richard Storer 13 July, 1809 │
[7] Jas Henry Phelps 21 Sept. 1809 │
[8] James Ross 12 Dec. 1811 │
[9] John Ross 15 Apr. 1813 │
[10] Sam. Beardsley, W. 16 Sept. 1813 │
[11] Edward Frederick 28 Apr. 1814 │
LIEUTENANTS. │
[12] Benjamin B. Hawley 10 May, 1809 │
[13] Thos. Brook 18 May, 1809 │
[14] Francis Minchin 12 July, 1809 │
[15] Walter George Mahon 13 July, 1809 │
[16] Wm. Henry Hare 20 July, 1809 │
[17] Oliver Ainsworth 26 July, 1810 │
[18] Henry Read 20 Feb. 1811 │
[19] Francis Kennedy 21 Feb. 1811 │
[20] Joseph Dyas 11 July, 1811 │
[21] John Flamanck 12 Dec. 1811 │
[22] Wm. Henry Elliott 13 Aug. 1812 │
[23] Wm. Davidson Simpson 3 Dec. 1812 │
[24] Frederick Mainwaring 15 Apr. 1813 │
[25] Wm. Jones, Adjt. 16 Apr. 1813 │
[26] Chas. Wm. Tyndale, W. 3 June, 1813 │
[27] Henry Martin 21 Oct. 1813 │
[28] Harry Hervis Roberts 7 Jan. 1814 │
[29] Egerton C.H. Isaacson 14 July, 1814 │
[30] Thos. Troward 29 Sept. 1814 │
[31] John Lintott 25 Dec. 1814 │22 Apr. 1813
ENSIGNS. │
[32] G.F. Berkeley St. John 3 June, 1813 │
[33] Henry Krause 21 Oct. 1813 │
[34] W. Johnstone 6 Jan. 1814 │25 Oct. 1813
[35] Alexander Fraser 21 Apr. 1814 │
[36] John Blair 14 July, 1814 │18 May, 1814
[37] Henry Lock 13 Oct. 1814 │
PAYMASTER. │
[38] John Gibbs 15 Feb. 1810 │
QUARTERMASTER. │
[39] Thos. Askey 18 Mar. 1813 │
SURGEON. │
[40] Richard Webster 14 July, 1808 │26 Oct. 1804
ASSISTANT-SURGEONS. │
[41] John F. Clarke 25 June, 1812 │
[42] Percy FitzPatrick 11 Mar. 1813 │
_Facings grass green._ _Lace gold._
Footnote L:
On the morning of 18th June, 1815, the 51st was composed of 2 field
officers, 9 captains, 26 subalterns, 6 staff officers, 39 sergts., 18
drummers, and 521 privates.
Footnote 1:
Served under Sir Eyre Coote in Egypt, and was present at the taking of
Alexandria. Commanded the 4th British Brigade at Waterloo. C.B. and K.
St. Vladimir. M. in 1804, Lady Harriet Somerset, youngest dau. of the
5th Duke of Beaufort, and had issue. D. in London, 20th April, 1817,
aged 45.
Footnote 2:
Served in the Pa., and had the gold medal for Nivelle. Commanded the
51st at Waterloo. C.B. Lt.-col. of this regt. 1817. D. 7th March,
1840. He belonged to an old family in Carmarthenshire, and was brother
to Ralph Rice, Judge at Bombay, who d. 1850.
Footnote 3:
At Waterloo, Maj. Keyt was appointed by Col. Mitchell to command the
light companies of the 51st, 14th, and 23rd regts. (which three regts.
were under Col. Mitchell’s command), and for this command he was made
bt. lt.-col. and C.B., after Waterloo. Was appointed Lt.-col. of the
84th Regt. in 1828, and d. in Jamaica in 1835.
Footnote 4:
Promoted maj. in this regt., 17th May, 1821; lt.-col. in 1881; and
retired on h. p. 1838. K.H. M.-Gen. 1854. Served in the Pa., and in
1848 received the silver war medal with five clasps. D. at
Breslington, 8th May, 1856.
Footnote 5:
Major 22nd June, 1815. Quitted the service before 1824.
Footnote 6:
Retd. as capt. 1823. D. at Egham, 1844.
Footnote 7:
Lt.-col. 1837. D. at Sydney, 1842.
Footnote 8:
Retd. 1824.
Footnote 9:
Maj. in this regt., 5th Nov., 1825. Lt.-col. on unattached list 1836,
served in the Pa. and in the Walcheren expedition. Was severely
wounded at Waterloo, and is said, “to have lost five brothers in this
battle.” D. at Hardway, Herts, 16th Sept., 1851, aged 61.
Footnote 10:
Retd. 1820 as capt.
Footnote 11:
Edward Henry Frederick was 5th son of Sir John Frederick, Bart., by
Mary, youngest dau. and co-heir of Richard Garth, of Morden, Surrey.
Bn. 6th Aug., 1788. Retired on h. p. as capt. 7th April, 1826. D.
1846.
Footnote 12:
Capt. 7th Apr. 1825. Retd. 1835.
Footnote 13:
H. p. 1825. D. 21st Dec., 1845 at Askham Bryan, Yorkshire.
Footnote 14:
Capt. 22nd June, 1815. Out of the regt. before 1824. Barrack-master at
Sheffield, 1854. D. a military Knight of Windsor, 1865.
Footnote 15:
Capt. 91st Foot 1830. Retd. same year.
Footnote 16:
Capt. 18th Nov., 1819. H. p. 25th July, 1822. Living 1846.
Footnote 17:
Capt. 14th Aug., 1828. Retd. 1843. D. 3rd Dec., 1859, at Launceston,
Australia.
Footnote 18:
Paymaster 68th Foot 8th Oct., 1818. Out of the army, 1836.
Footnote 19:
H. p. 1824. D. at Lincoln, 1857.
Footnote 20:
One of the greatest heroes of the Par. War. Led the Forlorn Hope on
two successive occasions during the siege of Badajoz, in 1811, when
Fort San Christoval was assaulted by the British. The second assault,
on the night of 9th June, is graphically described in _Reminiscences
of a Subaltern_:—“At ten o’clock at night, 200 men moved forward to
the assault, Dyas leading the advance. He made a circuit until he came
exactly opposite to the breach instead of entering the ditch as
before; a sheep-path, which he remembered in the evening while he and
Major MacGeechy made their observations, served to guide them to the
part of the glacis in front of the breach. Arrived at this spot, the
detachment descended the ditch, and found themselves at the foot of
the breach; but here an unlooked-for event stopped their further
progress, and would have been in itself sufficient to have caused the
failure of the attack. The ladders were entrusted to a party composed
of a foreign corps in our pay, called ‘the Chasseurs Britanniques’;
these men, the moment they reached the glacis, glad to rid themselves
of their load, flung the ladders into the ditch, instead of sliding
them between the palisadoes; they fell across them, and so stuck fast,
and being made of heavy green wood, it was next to impossible to
_move_, much less place them upright against the breach, and almost
all the storming party were massacred in the attempt. Placed in a
situation so frightful, it required a man of the most determined
character to continue the attack. Every officer of the detachment had
fallen, Major MacGeechy one of the first; and at this moment Dyas and
about five-and-twenty men were all that remained of the 200.
Undismayed by these circumstances, the soldiers persevered, and Dyas,
although wounded and bleeding, succeeded in disentangling one ladder,
and placing it against what was considered to be the breach, it was
speedily mounted, but upon arriving at the top of the ladder, instead
of the _breach_, it was found to be a _stone wall_ that had been
constructed in the night, and which completely cut off all
communication between the ditch and the bastion, so that when the men
reached the top of this wall, they were, in effect, as far from the
breach as if they had been in their own batteries. From this faithful
detail it is evident that the soldiers did as much as possible to
ensure success, and that failure was owing to a combination of
untoward circumstances over which the troops had no control. Nineteen
men were all that escaped.” The gallantry of Ensign Joseph Dyas was
proclaimed to the world in Wellington’s account of the two assaults of
San Christoval, but for all that a grateful War Office allowed him to
remain a subaltern for ten years longer!
“I know a man of whom ’tis truly said
He bravely twice a storming party led,
And volunteered both times; now here’s the rub,
The gallant fellow still remains a sub.”
In Dec. 1820, owing to the representations of Col. Gurwood and Sir H.
Torrens, the Duke of York promoted Dyas a capt. in the 2nd Ceylon
Regt., but impaired health obliged him to retire on h. p. 9th Aug.,
1821. D. 28th Apr., 1850 at Ballymuir, Ireland.
Footnote 21:
Major 16th Dec., 1836. H. p. 30th June, 1837. Retd. 1849 as bt.-col.
unattached.
Footnote 22:
Commanded the above regiment for many years. Was son of Capt. John
Elliott, R.N., one of Capt. Cook’s circumnavigators. Attained the rank
of Gen. and Col.-in-Chf. 51st Regt. G.C.B. and K.H. M. in 1831 a dau.
of W. Adams, of Ipswich. D. in London, 27th Feb., 1874.
Footnote 23:
Retd. 1821. D. April, 1855.
Footnote 24: