ROYAL WAGGON TRAIN.[N]

1.C.B. for Waterloo. Maj.-Gen. 1819. Gov. of Mauritius 1832. K.C.H. and Col.-in-Chf. 1st W.I. Regt. D. 1844.

2.C.B. and bt. lt.-col. for Waterloo. Aftds. Com.-in-Chf. at Madras. Lt.-Gen. and Col.-in-Chf. 24th Foot. D. whilst on a journey in his carriage, after leaving Tippicadoo, in March, 1854.

3.Afterwards Col. George Dry Hall. Retd on h. p. in 1839. D. at Hythe, 25th Feb., 1852.

4.Afterwards Maj. J.S. Sedley, first-class barrack-master at the Mauritius. Retd. in Aug., 1860, on a pension of £145 13s.9d.per annum. D. 21st Aug., 1867.

5.Placed on h. p. 11th March, 1819.

ROYAL WAGGON TRAIN.[N]

(Attached to the Quartermaster General’s Department.)

N.In 1816 the Rl. Waggon Train took up a new position in theArmy 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.

1.Placed on h. p. 25th Dec., 1818. D. 1839. (Seenoteto Lieut. Elwes, 71st Regt.)

2.In 1830 this unfortunate officer was still a capt. in the corps.

3.Quitted the service after 1830, with rank of maj. D. 10th Sept., 1849, aged 92. His son, Basil Jackson (seeStaff notes), wrote the military life of the Duke of Wellington, and several scientific works.

4.Serving in 1817. H. p. 1818.

5.H. p. 28th Aug., 1823.

6.Serving in same corps in 1830.

7.Adjt. 20th July, 1815. Serving in 1830.

8.H. p. 1817.

9.H. p. 1816.

10.Lieut. 60th Rifles 28th Nov., 1816. H. p. 1817.

11.Lieut. 20th July, 1815. Exchanged to 60th Rifles 18th Apr., 1816. H. p. 27th Sept., 1817. Living 1855.

12.H. p. 25th Dec., 1818.

13.Principal vet.-surgeon at Maidstone depôt 17th Sept., 1839. Serving in 1846.

ROYAL REGIMENT OF ARTILLERY.

STAFF.

1Col. Sir George Adam Wood, Kt., commanding.

2Lt.-Col. Sir Augustus Frazer, K.C.B., commanding Royal Horse Artillery.

3Lt.-Col. A. Macdonald, commanding six troops of Horse Artillery attached to the Cavalry.

4Adjt. Capt. Wm. Pakenham, R.H.A.

5Lt.-Col. Sir John May, A.A. General.

6Capt. H. Baynes, W., Brigade Major.

7Lieuts. John Bloomfield and8George Coles, Staff-Adjts. to Sir George Wood.

9Lieut. Wm. Bell, Staff-Adjt. to Sir A. Frazer.

10Lt.-Cols. S.G. Adye,11C. Gold,12J.S. Williamson, and13J. Hawker, field officers commanding two batteries of Foot Artillery attached to each division of the army.

14Major P. Drummond, field officer commanding Reserve Artillery.

15Lt.-Col. Sir Alexander Dickson, K.C.B., commanding Battering Train.

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.

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 memorableday.” 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.

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.

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.

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.

6.Afterwards bt. maj. and K.H. Maj., unattached list, 12th Dec., 1826. D. in Guernsey, 15th July, 1844.

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.

8.Retired by sale of his commission, as 2nd capt., 9th April, 1825, after being some years on temporary h. p.

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 hehad 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.)

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.

11.Afterwards Col. Charles Gold, C.B. Sold his commission 31st Dec., 1827. D. at Leamington, 17th April, 1842.

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.

13.Afterwards Col. James Hawker, C.B., Lt.-Gov. of Tilbury Fort. Brother to Capt. Edward Hawker, of theBritannia, and to John Hawker, of Plymouth. D. at Woolwich, 12th Oct., 1827, leaving a widow and three daughters.

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, 1829. Director-Gen. of Artillery, 1840. D. at Woolwich, 1st Jan., 1843.

15.Afterwards Maj.-Gen. Sir A. Dickson, G.C.B. and K.C.H., &c. 3rd son of Adm. Wm. Dickson, by his 1st wife, Jane, dau. of Alexander Collingwood, of Unthank, in Northumberland. The eminent war services of this distinguished soldier are too well known to need recapitulation. From 1798 to 1815 Sir A. Dickson was “on the war-path,” in Europe, North and South America. He commanded the allied artillery at Vittoria, San Sebastian, the passage of Bidassoa, Nivelle, Nive, and Toulouse. Recd. the gold cross and six clasps. K.T.S. The Portuguese medal, and Spanish gold cross for Albuera. Good service pens. of £365 per ann. M. Miss Briones, and had issue. D. 22nd April, 1840, and was bd. at Plumstead.

ROYAL HORSE ARTILLERY.

1.Afterwards Lt.-Col. R. Bull, C.B. and K.H. Bn. at Stafford, 3rd March, 1778. Entered the R.A. in 1794, and saw service in the West Indies in 1796–1798. Commanded I troop of Horse Artillery in the Pa. At Waterloo “his troop effected the greatest possible service throughout the early part of the battle; but owing to the loss sustained both in men and horses, together with the disabled condition of the guns (through incessant firing) it was obliged to retire before the close.” Bt. lt.-col. for Waterloo. Retd. on f. p. in 1834. D. at Bath, 17th Aug., 1835.

2.2nd son of Maj. W. Cairnes, of 39th Foot, who served all through the defence of Gibraltar, and d. in India. On the female side he was of the elder branch of the same family to whom a baronetcy was granted by Queen Anne (extinct). Killed by a cannon ball. Had seen much service in the Pa. M.I. in Canterbury Cathedral.

3.3rd son of Rear.-Adm. Sir Thomas Louis, Bart., by Jacquetta, dau. of Samuel Belfield. M., in 1825, Mary, eldest dau. of the Rev. A. Mallock, of Cockington Court. Retd. on f. p. as lt.-col., 1st April, 1852. D. in Jersey, 19th March, 1853.

4.Afterwards Sir W. Smith, Knt. 2nd capt. 1825. Killed by a carriage accident in Dublin, 3rd April, 1835. His son, a cadet at the R.M.A. Woolwich, met with a violent death in May, 1836.

5.Retired on h. p. 6th Feb., 1826.

1.Afterwards lt.-gen. and C.B. Commanded a troop of Horse Artillery in the Pa., and recd. the gold medal and one clasp for Vittoria and San Sebastian. C.B. for Waterloo. M. Eleanora, eldest dau. of Sir John Simeon, Bart. Director-Gen. of Artillery 1844–1848. Col.-Comdt. 1848. D. at Brighton, 21st March, 1853.

2.Retired on f. p., 10th April, 1845, as lt.-col. D. at Winkton, Hants 28th Feb., 1847.

3.4th son of Patrick Craufurd, by Jean, dau. of Lt.-Col. Donald Macdonald of the 84th Regt. D. in Perthshire, 21st Oct., 1819.

4.Retired on h. p. 29th July, 1825, as 2nd capt., and d. at Kerryside, near Carmarthen, 14th April, 1866.

5.Severely wounded in the foot by a grape shot. Served at Copenhagen in 1807, and in the Corunna campaign. Retd. on h. p. as 2nd capt., 7th Feb., 1832, and d. at Aix-la-Chapelle, 24th Oct., 1855.

O.This troop had the old 6-pounders.

1.Youngest son of Capt. John Gardiner (3rd Buffs), and brother of Lt.-Gen. Sir John Gardiner, Col.-in-Chf. 61st Regt. Bn. 2nd May, 1781. Joined the R.A. 7th April, 1797. In Oct. of same year was sent to Gibraltar, then partially blockaded by the French fleet. In Nov., 1798, was present at the capture of Minorca. Served under Lord Cathcart, in North Germany, in 1805, and in the Pa., and was made bt. maj. for his services in the trenches before Badajoz. Commanded a field battery at Salamanca, and at the capture of Madrid. At the siege of Burgos he volunteered with several of his men for the trenches. Was soon after appointed to the command of a troop of Horse Artillery, with which he served until the conclusion of the war. K.C.B. “His troop was most severely pressed in covering the left of the army on the retreat from Quatre Bras on the 17th, and took part in the great battle of the 18th June.” Appointed principal equerry to Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg, on the latter’s marriage with Princess Charlotte. A.D.C. to George IV., William IV., and her late Majesty Queen Victoria. In 1848 was appointed Gov. and Col.-in-Chf. of Gibraltar. G.C.B. K.St.A. and Grand Cross of Charles III. of Spain. D. as gen. and col.-comdt. R.A. at Claremont, 26th June, 1864. He m., in 1816, Caroline, eldest dau. of Lt.-Gen. Sir John MacLeod, and had issue.

2.Afterwards Lt.-Gen. Dyneley, C.B. Served at the battle of Maida, and in the Pa. Was taken prisoner at Majalahonda, when engaged with the rearguard of the French army, 11th Aug., 1812, but escaped from the enemy. Bt.-maj. for Waterloo. D. 21st June, 1860.

3.4th son of John Harding, of Old Springs, co. Stafford, by Sarah Booth, Bn. 1791. Retd. on h. p. 8th April, 1825, as 2nd capt., and d. 12th Nov., 1849.

4.Retired on h. p. as 2nd capt., 1825. D. 6th Feb., 1872. There is a short memoir of this officer’s services in theGentleman’s Magazinefor 1872.

5.Afterwards Gen. Sir Wm. Bates Ingilby, K.C.B., col.-comdt. R.A. 2nd son of the Rev. Henry Ingilby, of Ripley, and aftds. of Kirkleatham, co. York, by Isabella, eldest dau. of Ralph Bates, of Milbourne, co. Northumberland. Bn. 30th April, 1791. Served in the Pa., and was present at the sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo, forts of Salamanca (wounded) and Burgos. Also at the battles of Busaco, Fuentes d’Onor, and Salamanca. This Sir Wm. Ingilby, who d. in 1879, unm., must not be confounded with his cousin and namesake, Sir Wm. Ingilby, of Ripley Castle, a baronet of the second creation, of whom many amusing anecdotes are still remembered in Yorkshire, and whose appearance cannot have been martial.

(Rocket Troop—reduced in 1816.)

1.Afterwards Gen. Sir E.C. Whinyates, K.C.B. and K.H. Col.-Comdt. R.H.A. This distinguished officer was 3rd son of Maj. Thomas Whinyates, of Abbotsleigh, co. Devon. His mother was Catherine, dau. of Adm. Sir Thomas Frankland, 5th Bart., representative of the historic family of “Frankland of Thirkleby,” co. York, which has a direct descent from Oliver Cromwell. Bn. 6th May, 1782. Joined the R.A. 1st March, 1798. Accompanied the expedition, under Abercromby, to the Helder in 1799. Aftds. joined the army under the Duke of York, and took part in the campaign in North Holland. Served at the capture of Madeira in 1801. In 1807 was appointed adj. to the artillery of the army which, under Lord Cathcart, was employed in the attack on Copenhagen, and where he commanded, throughout the siege, one of the principal batteries, which went by the expressive name of the “Churchyard” battery. On his return home was appointed 2nd capt. of Capt. Lefebure’s troop of horse artillery (D troop), and in Feb., 1810, embarked for the Pa. TheCamilla, of 200 tons, having on board Capt. Whinyates, two officers, and 36 horses, nearly foundered in the Bay of Biscay, and was at last driven back to Cork, almost a wreck. This troop, arriving in the Pa. by detachments, was prevented from taking the field for some time. During the interval Whinyates served on the artillery staff, and was present at the battle of Busaco. His troop took the field before the battle of Albuera, where Whinyates commanded the half-troop which was attached to the cavalry on the right. It was here that some of the severest fighting took place. He was mentioned in public despatches for his conduct in the brilliant attack and defeat of Lallemand’s cavalry at Ribera, 24th July, 1812. Promoted 1st capt. in Jan., 1813, which occasioned his return to England. At Waterloo he had three horses shot under him, was struck by a round shot on the leg, and sev. wnded. in the left arm towards the close of the day. Bt. maj., and a permanent pens. for wounds. The eminent services of Maj. Whinyates were recognised by his being promoted bt. maj. for Waterloo, and re-appointed to a troop of horse artillery by the Duke of Wellington in 1823, and nominated K.H. same year. C.B., 1831. K.C.B. 1860. Gen. and col.-comdt. of Brigade R.H.A., 1864. D. at Cheltenham25th Dec., 1865. He had m., 22nd May, 1827, Eliz., only dau. of Samuel Crompton, of Wood End, co. York. An interesting memoir of Gen. Whinyates’s military life was published by the R.A. Institution in 1867, from which the above notice is extracted. The Editor is indebted to Maj.-Gen. Whinyates, nephew of Sir Edward, for the loan of the said memoir.

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