The Waterloo Roll Call
to this officer’s son, the late Col. Forbes Macbean, formerly comg.
92nd Highlanders, Sergt.-at-Arms to Her late Majesty, for the
following interesting particulars regarding his family: “My
great-great-grandfather was minister of the High Church (Presbyterian)
at Inverness for upwards of forty years. One of his sons (Forbes) was
a maj.-gen. of R.A.; two of his sons were—one (Frederick) col.-comg.
6th Foot, the other maj. of the 14th and 71st Regts. The eldest had
six sons, all in the army, viz.: Sir William, K.C.B. and K.T.S., gen.
and col.-in-chf. 92nd Highlanders; Frederick, K.H., col. 84th Regt.;
Forbes, col. R.A.; Archibald, lt.-gen. R.A.; Alfred, capt. 93rd
Highlanders; Alexander, lt. 83rd Regt. The last two died young. When
their father took the youngest to the Duke of York, C.-in-C., to ask
for a commission for him, the duke replied, ‘Yes, and if you had six
more sons they should all have commissions.’ In the retreat on
Corunna, my uncle Archibald, then in the Horse Artillery, picked up
his brother Frederick off the roadside, very seriously wounded, and
carried him on a gun-carriage into Corunna, and so saved his life.”
Forbes Macbean attained the rank of bt. col., and d. (on f. p. retd.
list) in Cleveland, co. York, 19th June, 1853.
Footnote 3:
D. as col. R.A. at Dinan, France, 20th July, 1857.
Footnote 4:
Retd. on h. p. as 2nd capt., 22nd Jan., 1834. D. at Terrick Hall,
Whitechurch, 20th Jan., 1859.
Footnote 5:
Afterwards lt.-gen. on the retd. f. p. list. D. in 1871.
MAJOR T. ROGERS’S BRIGADE.[Q]
Rank in the
——————
CAPTAIN. Regiment.│Army.
[1] Thos. Rogers 1 June, 1806 │Maj., 4 June, 1814
SECOND CAPTAIN. │
[2] Thos. Scott 20 June, 1812 │
FIRST LIEUTENANT. │
[3] Robert Manners, W. 13 Mar. 1811 │
SECOND LIEUTENANT. │
[4] Richard Goodwin Wilson 17 Dec. 1812 │
Footnote Q:
This list is imperfect, but is an improvement on the list given in
Col. Duncan’s _History of the R.A._ in so far that the Editor has been
able to add two officers to his list.
Footnote 1:
Major Rogers’s battery was hotly engaged at Quatre Bras, and rendered
valuable service. C.B. for Waterloo. D. as col., 9th Aug., 1839, at
Woolwich.
Footnote 2:
Had his horse killed under him at Quatre Bras. D. as bt.-maj. at
Fordwich, Canterbury, 28th Dec., 1834.
Footnote 3:
Was attached to Capt. Cleeves’s German battery at the battle of Ligny,
and recd. a wound, which proved mortal, on 18th June, 1815.
Footnote 4:
Was near Picton when the latter was killed at Waterloo, and was the
last survivor of Rogers’s Waterloo Battery. Was superintendent at
Shoeburyness during the Crimean War. D. as maj.-gen., retd. f. p.,
24th Oct., 1876.
ROYAL ARTILLERY OFFICERS AT WATERLOO WHO WERE UNATTACHED.
FIRST LIEUTENANTS.
[1] Wm. Lemoine.
[2] Edward Trevor.
Footnote 1:
Afterwards maj. retd. p., 1840. D. 21st Oct., 1874.
Footnote 2:
“Belonged to Capt. Tyler’s Company (6 Co. 5th Batt.) in 1815. The co.
was at Antwerp in June, 1815, but Lieut. Trevor was unattached at
Waterloo.” (Communicated by Lieut. Hubert Trevor, grandson of above
officer.) Aftds. major-gen. retd. f. p. Md., 11th June, 1827, Anne,
2nd dau. of G. Goulding. D. at Plymouth, 22nd Nov., 1878.
The following R.A. officers received the Waterloo medal, but “chaotic
confusion” has left a doubt as to whether they served at Waterloo, or
were with the reserve forces on 18th June, 1815:—
FIRST LIEUTENANTS.
[1] Edward Wm. Wood.
[2] George Silvester Maule.
SECOND LIEUTENANTS.
[3] Henry Dunnicliffe.
[4] Thos. Watkis.
[5] Wm. How Hennis.
[6] Chas. Geo. Kett.
[7] Gustavus T. Hume.
Footnote 1:
In Capt. Ilbert’s company at Brussels in June, 1815. D. at Gibraltar,
25th Nov., 1826.
Footnote 2:
In Capt. Ilbert’s company at Brussels in June, 1815. Served on board a
gunboat in the Adriatic 1812. Served in Spain 1813. 2nd capt. 31st
July, 1832. D. at Greenwich, 18th Oct., 1839.
Footnote 3:
Retd. h. p. 1st Apr., 1819. D. at Richmond, 8th Apr., 1866.
Footnote 4:
1st Lieut. 1st Aug., 1815. D. at the Cape of Good Hope 29th Apr.,
1828.
Footnote 5:
Retd. on f. p. as lt.-col. 1851. Attained rank of lt.-gen. retd. list
1868, and d. at Boulogne 14th Dec., 1872.
Footnote 6:
1st Lieut. 30th Sept., 1816. Retd. f. p. 4th March, 1835. D. 14th
Sept., 1841.
Footnote 7:
In Capt. Ilbert’s company at Brussels in June, 1815. 1st Lieut. 21st
Nov., 1816. Purchased a cornetcy in 15th Lt. Dragoons, 16th Dec.,
1819. Lieut. 7th Aug., 1823. Capt. 10th June, 1824. H. p. 1829.
Probably belonged to a collateral branch of “Hume, of Castle Hume,”
co. Fermanagh.
CORPS OF ROYAL ARTILLERY DRIVERS.[R]
Rank in the
——————
CAPTAIN-COMMISSARY. Regiment.│Army.
[1] Wm. H. Humphreys 21 May, 1806 │
FIRST LIEUT.-COMMISSARIES. │
[2] George Fiske 5 June, 1804 │
[3] Matthew Evans 1 Jan. 1807 │
[4] Wm. Carthew 14 Jan. 1807 │
[5] George Wilkinson 1 Sept. 1808 │
[6] Edward Philpot 1 Sept. 1808 │
[7] Thomas Reid 1 May, 1809 │
[8] John Roberts 1 Dec. 1809 │
SECOND LIEUT. COMMISSARY. │
[9] Joseph Jagger 16 July, 1813 │
ADJUTANT. │
[10] Moore Jordan 1 Jan. 1813 │First Lieut., 7
│June, 1804
Footnote R:
“The corps of R.A. Drivers was gradually reduced after the peace of
1814—four troops on 1st Jan., 1815, two on 1st July, 1816, and two on
1st Aug., 1816—the officers being placed on half-pay. In 1822 the
corps ceased to exist.”—Kane’s _R.A. List_, from which the following
notes are taken:—
Footnote 1:
Retd. 1st Aug., 1816. D. at Paris, 17th Feb., 1837.
Footnote 2:
Retd. 1st Dec., 1816. D. 6th Sept., 1824.
Footnote 3:
Retd. 1st Aug., 1816. D. 7th April, 1854.
Footnote 4:
Retd. 1st Aug., 1816.
Footnote 5:
Served at Copenhagen and in the Pa. Also in the Walcheren expedition.
H. p. 1st Aug., 1816. Appointed barrack-master at Rutland barracks. D.
1831.
Footnote 6:
Retd. 1st Aug., 1816. D. 12th May, 1855.
Footnote 7:
Retd. 1st July, 1816. D. 1855.
Footnote 8:
Retd. 1st July, 1816. D. 20th Aug., 1858.
Footnote 9:
Retd. 1st Aug., 1816. D. 28th Sept., 1862.
Footnote 10:
Retd. on f. p., 11th March, 1817.
CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS.
Rank in the
——————
LIEUT.-COLONEL. Regiment.│Army.
[1] Jas. Carmichael Smyth 20 Oct. 1813 │
CAPTAINS. │
[2] Sir George Hoste, Kt. 21 May, 1812 │Maj., 17 Mar. 1814
[3] John Oldfield 26 Jan. 1815 │
SECOND CAPTAINS. │
[4] Frank Stanway 21 July, 1813 │
[5] Alexander Thomson 21 July, 1813 │
LIEUTENANTS. │
[6] John Wm. Pringle, W. 1 May, 1811 │
[7] Marcus Anton Waters 1 May, 1811 │
[8] Francis Bond Head 13 May, 1811 │
[9] Francis Yarde Gilbert 10 June, 1811 │
[10] John Sperling, Adjt. 1 July, 1812 │
[11] Andrew Douglas White 21 July, 1813 │
Footnote 1:
C.B. for Waterloo. The admirable position which Wellington chose for
his army on 18th June, 1815, had been surveyed by the Duke’s
directions in 1814, and it was Col. Smyth’s plan of the ground which
enabled Wellington to place his troops so rapidly and advantageously
that day. Created a bart. 25th Aug., 1821. Eldest son of James
Carmichael Smyth, M.D., F.R.S., the intimate friend and contemporary
of Sir Robert Strange, the great engraver. Bn. 22nd Feb., 1780. M.,
28th May, 1816, Harriet, only surviving child of Gen. Robert Morse,
and had issue. Gov. of British Guiana. D. there 4th March, 1838.
Footnote 2:
2nd son of Dixon Hoste, by Margaret, dau. of Henry Stanforth, of
Salthouse, co. Norfolk. M., in 1812, Mary, only dau. of James
Borroughes, of Burlingham Hall, Norfolk, and had issue. Lt.-Col. 29th
July, 1825. C.B. D. 1845.
Footnote 3:
Brigade-Maj. at Waterloo. An interesting extract from his journal of
the Waterloo campaign is given in Maj.-Gen. Porter’s _History of the
Corps of Royal Engineers_. D. as gen. and K.H. 2nd Aug., 1863.
Footnote 4:
Served in Sweden and in the Pa. Capt. 23rd March, 1825. D. at
Limerick, 9th Dec., 1832.
Footnote 5:
Wounded at the taking of Cambray in June, 1815. D. as maj. 20th June,
1830, in Edinburgh.
Footnote 6:
Served in the Pa. D. as maj., 12th Oct., 1861, at Bath.
Footnote 7:
Retd. on f. p. as col., and d. in London, 14th Jan., 1868.
Footnote 8:
Afterwards lt.-gov. of Upper Canada, and K.C.H. Retd. in 1828 as maj.
Created a bart. in 1837. Son of James Head, by Frances, dau. of George
Burges. M., 20th May, 1816, Julia Valenza, sister of Mark, Lord
Somerville, and had issue. D. 20th July, 1875.
Footnote 9:
Mentioned in Sir C. Colville’s despatch for his services at the taking
of Cambray, in June, 1815. 6th son of the Rev. Edmund Gilbert, Vicar
of Constantine, co. Cornwall. Retd. as capt. 1825. M. Eliz., widow of
Wm. Burroughs. D. at Killaloe, 30 Nov., 1871.
Footnote 10:
Led the Forlorn Hope at Bergen-op-Zoom in 1814. Some extracts from his
Waterloo diary are given in Maj.-Gen. Porter’s _History of the R.E._
One of the sons of Henry Piper Sperling, of Norbury Park, Surrey, by
Sarah, dau. and co-heir of Henry Grace, of Tottenham, Middlesex. Retd.
on h. p. as lt. 1824. M. Harriet, dau. of John Hanson. D. 14th Feb.,
1877.
Footnote 11:
2nd capt. 6th Dec., 1826. H. p. 6th Oct., 1831. D. at Paramatta,
N.S.W. 24th Nov., 1837.
MEDICAL STAFF.
INSPECTOR.
Date of Commission.
[1] Sir James Robert Grant, M.D. 14 July, 1814
DEPUTY-INSPECTORS.
Wm. Taylor 25 July, 1811
John Gunning 17 Sept. 1812
Stephen Woolriche 26 May, 1814
[2] John R.H.me 26 May, 1814
PHYSICIAN.
[3] George Denecke, M.D., W. 17 June, 1813
SURGEONS.
[4] David Brownrigg 18 June, 1807
Henry Gresley Emery, M.D. 11 Aug. 1808