CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS.

1.Retd. on f. p. as lt.-col., 23rd Dec., 1841. D. in Jersey, 15th May, 1851.

2.Served at the siege of Copenhagen in 1807, expedition to Sweden 1808, Corunna campaign same year, Walcheren expedition and siege of Flushing 1809. Served in Canada during the rebellion in 1837–1838, and for his services at Prescott, in Upper Canada, in Nov., 1838, received the thanks of the lt.-gov. and a bt. lt.-colonelcy. The Editor is indebted 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.

3.D. as col. R.A. at Dinan, France, 20th July, 1857.

4.Retd. on h. p. as 2nd capt., 22nd Jan., 1834. D. at Terrick Hall, Whitechurch, 20th Jan., 1859.

5.Afterwards lt.-gen. on the retd. f. p. list. D. in 1871.

Q.This list is imperfect, but is an improvement on the list given in Col. Duncan’sHistory of the R.A.in so far that the Editor has been able to add two officers to his list.

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.

2.Had his horse killed under him at Quatre Bras. D. as bt.-maj. at Fordwich, Canterbury, 28th Dec., 1834.

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.

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.

FIRST LIEUTENANTS.

1Wm. Lemoine.2Edward Trevor.

1Wm. Lemoine.

2Edward Trevor.

1.Afterwards maj. retd. p., 1840. D. 21st Oct., 1874.

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.

1Edward Wm. Wood.2George Silvester Maule.

1Edward Wm. Wood.

2George Silvester Maule.

SECOND LIEUTENANTS.

3Henry Dunnicliffe.4Thos. Watkis.5Wm. How Hennis.6Chas. Geo. Kett.7Gustavus T. Hume.

3Henry Dunnicliffe.

4Thos. Watkis.

5Wm. How Hennis.

6Chas. Geo. Kett.

7Gustavus T. Hume.

1.In Capt. Ilbert’s company at Brussels in June, 1815. D. at Gibraltar, 25th Nov., 1826.

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.

3.Retd. h. p. 1st Apr., 1819. D. at Richmond, 8th Apr., 1866.

4.1st Lieut. 1st Aug., 1815. D. at the Cape of Good Hope 29th Apr., 1828.

5.Retd. on f. p. as lt.-col. 1851. Attained rank of lt.-gen. retd. list 1868, and d. at Boulogne 14th Dec., 1872.

6.1st Lieut. 30th Sept., 1816. Retd. f. p. 4th March, 1835. D. 14th Sept., 1841.

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.

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’sR.A. List, from which the following notes are taken:—

1.Retd. 1st Aug., 1816. D. at Paris, 17th Feb., 1837.

2.Retd. 1st Dec., 1816. D. 6th Sept., 1824.

3.Retd. 1st Aug., 1816. D. 7th April, 1854.

4.Retd. 1st Aug., 1816.

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.

6.Retd. 1st Aug., 1816. D. 12th May, 1855.

7.Retd. 1st July, 1816. D. 1855.

8.Retd. 1st July, 1816. D. 20th Aug., 1858.

9.Retd. 1st Aug., 1816. D. 28th Sept., 1862.

10.Retd. on f. p., 11th March, 1817.

CORPS OF ROYAL ENGINEERS.

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.

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.

3.Brigade-Maj. at Waterloo. An interesting extract from his journal of the Waterloo campaign is given in Maj.-Gen. Porter’sHistory of the Corps of Royal Engineers. D. as gen. and K.H. 2nd Aug., 1863.

4.Served in Sweden and in the Pa. Capt. 23rd March, 1825. D. at Limerick, 9th Dec., 1832.

5.Wounded at the taking of Cambray in June, 1815. D. as maj. 20th June, 1830, in Edinburgh.

6.Served in the Pa. D. as maj., 12th Oct., 1861, at Bath.

7.Retd. on f. p. as col., and d. in London, 14th Jan., 1868.

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.

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.

10.Led the Forlorn Hope at Bergen-op-Zoom in 1814. Some extracts from his Waterloo diary are given in Maj.-Gen. Porter’sHistory 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.

11.2nd capt. 6th Dec., 1826. H. p. 6th Oct., 1831. D. at Paramatta, N.S.W. 24th Nov., 1837.

MEDICAL STAFF.

1.This distinguished physician was son of Duncan Grant, of Lingeston, N.B., and brother to that equally distinguished soldier, Col. Colquhoun Grant (seeStaff). Bn. at Forres, Morayshire, in 1771. Served as assistant-surgeon and surgeon in the 11th Regt. of Foot, and was one of the very few officers who served through the whole of the war with France, viz., from 1793 to 1815. C.B. and K.H. In 1814 he recd. the order of St. Anne of Russia from the Emperor for his services when with the Russian army in France. Aftds. Inspector-Gen. of Hospitals. Retd. on f. p. about 1847. Resided in Cumberland, and d. 10th Jan., 1864. (Communicated by the late Major Walter McGregor, nephew of the above.)

2.Wellington’s friend and physician for many years. “After Waterloo.—After the battle Wellington rode to Brussels, and the first person who entered his room on the morning of the 19th was Dr. Hume. ‘He had, as usual,’ says the doctor, ‘taken off his clothes, but his face was covered with the dust and sweat of the previous day. He extended his hand to me, which I held in mine while I told him of Alexander Gordon’s death. He was much affected. I felt his tears dropping fast upon my hand, and, looking towards him, saw them chasing one another in a stream over his dusty cheeks. He brushed them suddenly away with his left hand, and said to me, in a voice tremulous with emotion—“Well, thank God, I don’t know what it is to lose a battle, but certainly nothing can be more painful than to gain one with the loss of so many of one’s friends.”’”—Fifty Years’ Biographical Reminiscences, by Lord William Lennox.

3.Slightly wounded at Quatre Bras, and his horse sev. wnded.

4.Served in the Pa. “Was the first surgeon to amputate with success at the hip joint.” D. in Dublin in Nov., 1836.

5.Served in Egypt, at Maida, and in the Pa. Was surgeon to Sir John Moore. Recd. the thanks of the Govt. for his services at Waterloo. Inspector-Gen. of Hospitals. D. 28th June, 1850, at Instow, Barnstaple.

6.Surgeon to the 7th Hussars, 7th May, 1816. H. p. 25th June, 1829, from Rl. Waggon Train. Living 1846.

7.Afterwards Sir Andrew Halliday, Knt., M.D., F.R.S., and K.H. Was educated for the Church, but finding he had a medical turn, adopted the latter profession. Served on the medical staff both in Spain and Portugal, and aftds. at Waterloo. Was of humble parentage, but of good blood, being descended from “Thom Halliday, my sister’s son, so dear,” mentioned by the great Sir William Wallace. D. at Dumfries, 7th Sept., 1839.

8.Hospital assistant 8th July, 1799. Assist.-surgn. Dec., 1799. H. p. before 1824.

9.D. Sept., 1852.

10.Entered the medical dept. 1804, but saw some of his earliest service afloat under Lord Nelson in 1805. Present at the capture of St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John in 1807. Subsequently served at Fort Dessaix, Martinique, and Guadaloupe. Proceeded to the Pa. in 1813 and America 1814–15. Present at the attack on New Orleans and Fort Bowyer. Joined the army in the Netherlands in May, 1815. Present at Waterloo and capture of Paris. H. p. 1816. Retd. in Jan., 1833. D. in London 24th Dec., 1852. Left issue a son, Lt.-Col. Robt. C.D. Bruce, h. p. 8th Foot, to whom there is a tablet in Ripon Minster.

11.H. p. 5th Foot 22nd Aug., 1816. Living 1852.

12.Assist.-Surgn. 14th Foot 23rd Dec., 1824. H. p. 15th Dec., 1825. Living 1846.

ORDNANCE MEDICAL DEPARTMENT.[S]

S.The notes given below are taken from Kane’sR.A. List:—

1.Sen. surgeon 16th Jan., 1841. Retd. f. p. 24th Jan., 1844. D. at Jessfield, 23rd Sept., 1854.

2.H. p. 1st Sept., 1817. D. at Dover, 4th Sept., 1849.

3.H. p. 1st Oct., 1817.

4.H. p. as sen. surgeon 25th July, 1849. D. at Tiverton, 28th Sept., 1850.

5.H. p. 1st Apr., 1816. D. at St. Ives, 17th Jan., 1866.

6.H. p. 1st Oct., 1816. D. at Westport, Ireland, 17th Apr., 1824.

7.H. p. 11th Sept., 1838. D. at Aberdeen, 8th March, 1860.

8.H. p. 1st Feb., 1819. D. in Dublin, 24th Sept., 1874.

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