The Waterloo Roll Call
ROYAL WAGGON TRAIN.[N]
(_Attached to the Quartermaster General’s Department._)
Rank in the
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LIEUT.-COLONEL. Regiment.│Army.
[1] Thomas Aird 4 May, 1815 │2 June, 1814
CAPTAINS. │
[2] Thomas Pardoe 1 Oct. 1812 │
[3] Basil Jackson 3 Dec. 1812 │
LIEUTENANTS. │
[4] Wm. Aitkin 9 Feb. 1809 │
[5] Edward Smith 23 Feb. 1815 │
[6] Joseph McDowall 16 Mar. 1815 │4 July, 1811
[7] Henry O’Neil 27 Apr. 1815 │
[8] Robert Parkinson 4 May, 1815 │
[9] Charles Bott 25 May, 1815 │22 Apr. 1813
[10] Robert Kerr 25 May, 1815 │
CORNETS. │
[11] Thos. Glendinning │9 Dec. 1813
[12] John Fenn 4 May, 1815 │
SURGEON. │
Thomas Wynne 6 Oct. 1808 │20 June, 1799
VETERINARY-SURGEON. │
[13] Frederick Cherry 16 July, 1807 │
_Blue._ _Facings red._ _Lace silver._
Footnote N:
In 1816 the Rl. Waggon Train took up a new position in the _Army
List_, viz., after the cavalry and newly-raised corps, the “Staff
Corps of Cavalry,” so called to distinguish it from the “Royal Staff
Corps,” which followed in the wake of the Rifle Brigade. The Waggon
Train was reduced about twenty years after Waterloo, and after the
Crimean War a corps called “The Military Train” sprung into existence,
which, like its predecessor, was chiefly officered by old soldiers who
had won their commissions while serving in the ranks. The Military
Train was reduced in its turn, and “The Army Service Corps” may be
said to be its present equivalent.
Footnote 1:
Placed on h. p. 25th Dec., 1818. D. 1839. (_See_ note to Lieut. Elwes,
71st Regt.)
Footnote 2:
In 1830 this unfortunate officer was still a capt. in the corps.
Footnote 3:
Quitted the service after 1830, with rank of maj. D. 10th Sept., 1849,
aged 92. His son, Basil Jackson (_see_ Staff notes), wrote the
military life of the Duke of Wellington, and several scientific works.
Footnote 4:
Serving in 1817. H. p. 1818.
Footnote 5:
H. p. 28th Aug., 1823.
Footnote 6:
Serving in same corps in 1830.
Footnote 7:
Adjt. 20th July, 1815. Serving in 1830.
Footnote 8:
H. p. 1817.
Footnote 9:
H. p. 1816.
Footnote 10:
Lieut. 60th Rifles 28th Nov., 1816. H. p. 1817.
Footnote 11:
Lieut. 20th July, 1815. Exchanged to 60th Rifles 18th Apr., 1816. H.
p. 27th Sept., 1817. Living 1855.
Footnote 12:
H. p. 25th Dec., 1818.
Footnote 13:
Principal vet.-surgeon at Maidstone depôt 17th Sept., 1839. Serving in
1846.
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ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY.
STAFF.
[1] Col. Sir George Adam Wood, Kt., commanding.
[2] Lt.-Col. Sir Augustus Frazer, K.C.B., commanding Royal Horse
Artillery.
[3] Lt.-Col. A. Macdonald, commanding six troops of Horse Artillery
attached to the Cavalry.
[4] Adjt. Capt. Wm. Pakenham, R.H.A.
[5] Lt.-Col. Sir John May, A.A. General.
[6] Capt. H. Baynes, W., Brigade Major.
[7] Lieuts. John Bloomfield and [8]George Coles, Staff-Adjts. to
Sir George Wood.
[9] Lieut. Wm. Bell, Staff-Adjt. to Sir A. Frazer.
[10] Lt.-Cols. S.G. Adye, [11] C. Gold, [12] J.S. Williamson,
and [13] J. Hawker, field officers commanding two batteries of
Foot Artillery attached to each division of the army.
[14] Major P. Drummond, field officer commanding Reserve Artillery.
[15] Lt.-Col. Sir Alexander Dickson, K.C.B., commanding Battering
Train.
Footnote 1:
Son of Adam Wood, Lt. of Capt. Coote’s Independent Company of Foot at
Landguard Fort, who d. 1773. Commanded the R.A. in Holland during the
campaign of 1814, and led one of the attacking columns at
Bergen-op-Zoom. Was knighted when proxy to Sir J.C. Sherbrooke at the
installation of the Bath. 22nd May, 1812. C.B., K.M.T., K.St.V., and
K.W. for Waterloo. A.D.C. to George IV., and K.C.H. D. a maj.-gen.,
22nd April, 1831.
Footnote 2:
Son of Col. Andrew Frazer, R.E., by Charlotte, dau. of Stillingfleet
Durnford, of the Ordnance Office. Bn at Dunkirk, 5th Sept., 1776, and
educated at the High School, Edinburgh, where he was a contemporary of
Lord Brougham. Joined the Military Academy at Woolwich in August,
1790, and became 2nd lt. R.A., 18th Sept., 1793. Served in Holland in
1794. In 1795 was appointed to the Royal Horse Artillery, and in 1799
again embarked for active service in Holland. Commanded the artillery
of the expedition against Buenos Ayres, and was present at the assault
of that city in July, 1807. In June 1811, was made bt. maj., and in
Nov., 1812, joined the British army in the Pa. Five months later was
appointed to command the Horse Artillery of Wellington’s army, and
served in this capacity until the conclusion of the war, winning for
himself, and his branch of the service, a high reputation. K.C.B. and
the gold cross, with one clasp. In the Waterloo campaign, Frazer again
commanded the R.H.A., and “his high reputation as an artillery
officer, combined with his firmness of character, prevailed on the
Duke of Wellington, who was at first not favourable to the exchange,
to permit him to substitute 9-pounders for 6-pounders in the troops of
Horse Artillery serving with the army. To this exchange, which
preceded the battle of Waterloo, may justly be ascribed much of the
success of that memorable day.” Another instance of Frazer’s firmness
of character is exhibited in the speedy way in which he made the
Prussians, two days after Waterloo, surrender all the French guns
which had been captured by the British, and which the rapacious
Prussians had annexed, and “regularly parked with Prussian sentries.”
Frazer’s interesting letters from the Pa. and the Netherlands were
published in 1859. These letters stamp the writer as a thorough
soldier, a perfect gentleman, a delightful companion, and a modest and
unassuming man, possessing a heart that could feel for others’ woes.
He m., in 1809, Emma, youngest dau. of James Lynn, of Woodbridge, in
Suffolk, and had issue two sons. He d. as col., 11th June, 1835, at
Woolwich, whilst holding the appointment of Director of the Royal
Laboratory.
Footnote 3:
One of the “Macdonalds of Glencoe.” Commanded a troop of R.H.A. in the
Pa. C.B. for Waterloo. Was entertained at a public banquet at
Edinburgh on 18th June, 1816. Maj.-gen. 1837. D. at Leamington 21st
May, 1840.
Footnote 4:
Retired on h. p. as 2nd capt., 1st July, 1822. 3rd son of Edward
Pakenham, M.P. for co. Donegal, by Catherine, dau. of Chambre
Ponsonby-Barker. Bn. 3rd Feb., 1789. D. about 1863.
Footnote 5:
Son of John May, Esq., storekeeper of the Ordnance, Fort George,
Guernsey; lineally descended from Thos. May, the poet (of the family
of Mays, of Mayfield, county Sussex). Bn. 1778. Md. 1819 the only
child of Robt. Broff, Esq., formerly governor of Bencoolen, Sumatra.
Major-Genl. in the army 1838. Was a colonel in the R.A., in which he
served from 1795. Recd. the gold cross and three clasps for his
services at Badajoz, Salamanca, Vittoria, San Sebastian, Nivelle,
Nive, and Toulouse. Was given the order of St. Anne of Russia, 2nd
class, for his services at Quatre Bras and Waterloo, also nominated a
knight of the Tower and Sword of Portugal, in 1815, for his services
in the Peninsula. K.C.B. 1815. K.C.H. 1822. Sir John was employed
afloat in bomb service from 1st Dec., 1797, to the 16th April, 1801.
Present at Copenhagen in 1807. He recd. two musket balls through the
left thigh when charging the French rearguard on the morning after the
battle of Salamanca, and a violent contusion at Vittoria. D., 8th May,
1847, in London. Above information communicated by Mrs. Gibbons,
great-niece of Sir John May, K.C.B.
Footnote 6:
Afterwards bt. maj. and K.H. Maj., unattached list, 12th Dec., 1826.
D. in Guernsey, 15th July, 1844.
Footnote 7:
A scion of the Tipperary family, and cousin of the late Baron
Bloomfield, the diplomatist. Was attaché at Stockholm for some years.
G.C.B. Gen. and col.-commandant R.H.A. D. 1st Aug., 1880, in London,
unm.
Footnote 8:
Retired by sale of his commission, as 2nd capt., 9th April, 1825,
after being some years on temporary h. p.
Footnote 9:
Afterwards Gen. Sir Wm. Bell, K.C.B. Col.-comdt. R.H.A. His father was
Wm. Bell, a native of Tanfield, Yorkshire, a cornet in the Yeomanry,
but a surgeon by profession, who had a good practice in Ripon, and was
twice mayor of that town. His mother was Ann Atkinson, one of the
daughters of Henry Atkinson, town clerk of Ripon. The way W. Bell
became an artilleryman was as follows:—“Old Col. Quist of the R.A.,
head of the riding establishment (who belonged to a Dutch family),
came to Ripon to buy horses when Bell was a boy in his teens, and
happening to meet the youth in Ripon society, he took a fancy to him.”
Col. Quist used his interest in obtaining for Bell a nomination to a
cadetship at Woolwich Academy. In due course Bell obtained a
commission in the R.A., and soon evinced that he had a talent for “the
music of war.” He served in the West Indies from 1807–1810, and was
present at the capture of several of the West Indian islands. Served
in the Pa. from July, 1813, to 1814, and was present at five general
actions. Slightly wounded at Toulouse. His duties were very onerous
both at Quatre Bras and Waterloo, where he was employed in conveying
instructions and orders to officers commanding batteries in all parts
of the field. He had the narrowest escape of being crushed to death,
in after life, that ever befell anyone. “He fell from his horse in
front of a battery of R.H.A. at Norwich (or Ipswich), and the battery
going over him at a gallop, the drag-shoe of one of the guns knocked
his ear off!” Sir W. Bell resided during the latter part of his life
at Ripon, and d. there, unm., 28th March, 1873. Buried at Tanfield.
M.I. (The above is from information supplied by the late Gen. W.H.
Askwith, R.A.)
Footnote 10:
Afterwards Maj.-Gen. Stephen Galway Adye, C.B. Superintendent of the
Rl. Laboratory. 2nd son of Maj. Stephen P. Adye, R.A. Served under
Abercromby in Egypt, and took part in the Walcheren Expedition. Served
also in the Pa. D. 13th Sept., 1838.
Footnote 11:
Afterwards Col. Charles Gold, C.B. Sold his commission 31st Dec.,
1827. D. at Leamington, 17th April, 1842.
Footnote 12:
C.B. for Waterloo. M., 30th April, 1817, Miss Maclean, of Giese, co.
Caithness. Was an officer of considerable ability, and his scientific
knowledge of gunnery was most beneficial to his corps. D. at Woolwich,
26th April, 1836.
Footnote 13:
Afterwards Col. James Hawker, C.B., Lt.-Gov. of Tilbury Fort. Brother
to Capt. Edward Hawker, of the _Britannia_, and to John Hawker, of
Plymouth. D. at Woolwich, 12th Oct., 1827, leaving a widow and three
daughters.
Footnote 14:
Afterwards Maj.-Gen. Percy Drummond, C.B. Son of Duncan Drummond,
R.A., Director-Gen. of the Field Train. Lt.-Gov. of the R.M. Academy,