Royal ArtilleryP
Captain Sandham’s Brigade
| Rank in the | |||||
| CAPTAIN. | Regiment. | Army. | |||
| 1 | Charles F. Sandham | 14 | Feb. | 1814 | 1 June, 1806 |
| SECOND CAPTAIN. | |||||
| 2 | Wm. H. Stopford | 1 | Apr. | 1815 | |
| FIRST LIEUTENANTS. | |||||
| 3 | George Foot | 1 | Feb. | 1808 | |
| 4 | George M. Baynes | 1 | Feb. | 1808 | |
| SECOND LIEUTENANT. | |||||
| 5 | Darell Jago | 5 | July, | 1813 | |
Captain S. Bolton’s Brigade
| Rank in the | |||||
| CAPTAIN. | Regiment. | Army. | |||
| 1 | Samuel Bolton, K. | 20 | Dec. | 1814 | |
| SECOND CAPTAIN. | |||||
| 2 | Charles Napier, W. | 16 | Mar. | 1812 | |
| FIRST LIEUTENANTS. | |||||
| 3 | George Pringle | 1 | June, | 1806 | |
| 4 | Wm. C. Anderson | 1 | Aug. | 1808 | |
| 5 | Charles Spearman, W. | 30 | Aug. | 1812 | |
| 6 | Wm. Sharpin | 20 | Dec. | 1814 | |
| SECOND LIEUTENANT. | |||||
| 7 | Burke Cuppage | 17 | Dec. | 1812 | |
Major W. Lloyd’s Brigade
(Reduced in 1817.)
| Rank in the | |||||
| CAPTAIN. | Regiment. | Army. | |||
| 1 | Wm. Lloyd, W. | 13 | June, | 1807 | Maj., 4 June, 1814 |
| SECOND CAPTAIN. | |||||
| 2 | Samuel Rudyerd | 24 | Mar. | 1809 | |
| FIRST LIEUTENANTS. | |||||
| 3 | Fortescue Wells | 1 | Feb. | 1808 | |
| 4 | Samuel Phelps | 18 | Sept. | 1809 | |
| SECOND LIEUTENANT. | |||||
| 5 | Wm. H. Harvey, W. | 13 | Dec. | 1813 | |
Captain J. Sinclair’s Brigade
| Rank in the | |||||
| SECOND CAPTAINS. | Regiment. | Army. | |||
| 1 | James Sinclair | 14 | Feb. | 1814 | |
| 2 | Forbes Macbean | 20 | Dec. | 1814 | |
| FIRST LIEUTENANTS. | |||||
| 3 | John A. Wilson | 20 | Dec. | 1814 | |
| 4 | Wm. H. Poole, W. | 10 | May, | 1815 | |
| SECOND LIEUTENANT. | |||||
| 5 | Richard B. Burnaby | 17 | Dec. | 1812 | |
Major T. Rogers’s BrigadeQ
| 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 | |
Royal Artillery Officers at Waterloo Who Were Unattached
FIRST LIEUTENANTS.
1 Wm. Lemoine.
2 Edward Trevor.
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.
Corps of Royal Artillery DriversR
| 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 |
Notes
P. This and all the other Field Brigades were each armed with five 9-pounders and one 5–1/2-inch howitzer.
1. The name of Sandham has been a household word in the Artillery for nearly 140 years. The above Capt. Sandham came of the Sussex family of this name, who have for long been landholders in that county. “The first shot fired by the allied artillery at Waterloo was fired by Sandham’s brigade.” Retd. on h. p. as bt. maj., 7th June, 1822. D. at Rowdell, Sussex, Feb., 1869.
2. Third son of Lt.-Gen. the Hon. Edward Stopford. Assumed the additional surname of Blair on succeeding to the Penninghame estate, co. Wigtown. Retd. on h. p. as bt. col., 20th Dec., 1841. Col. Stopford-Blair m., in 1823, a dau. of Col. R. Bull, C.B. He d. 23rd Sept., 1868, and was succeeded by his eldest son.
3. Retired on h. p. as 2nd capt., 13th Nov., 1826, and d. 26th Oct., 1874. In 1814 he served at the attack on Merxem, and the bombardment of the French shipping at Antwerp.
4. Served in the Pa. Retd. on h. p. as 2nd capt., 25th Sept., 1834. D. in Guernsey, 28th Oct., 1874. He was nephew of Sir John Macleod, R.A., and brother to Capt. H. Baynes, Bde.-Maj., R.A., at Waterloo.
5. Retd. on h. p. as 2nd capt., 6th Jan., 1836. D. 22nd Dec., 1850.
1. This officer was killed towards the close of the battle, when directing the fire of his battery against the Imperial Guards in their historical advance.
2. Succeeded Capt. Bolton in the command of the battery, and by Wellington’s orders gave the advancing French column “a salvo of grape and canister” which did terrible execution among their devoted ranks. A few minutes afterwards Capt. Napier recd. eight wounds from the bursting of a shrapnel shell. On 21st Jan., 1819, recd. a tardy bt. of maj. for his services at Waterloo. Retd. by the sale of his commission, 20th March, 1827. D. at Lisburn, 20th June, 1849.
3. Retd. on f. p. as bt. maj., 16th May, 1839. D. in Edinburgh, 23rd March, 1842.
4. Afterwards maj.-gen. D. in Edinburgh, 30th Aug., 1865.
5. D. at Brussels, 27th June, 1815, of wounds recd. at Waterloo. Eldest son of Charles Spearman, of Thornley Hall, co. Durham, by Sarah, dau. and heir of Samuel Brooke, of Birchington, Kent.
6. Retd. on h. p. 1st July, 1823. D. 23rd July, 1857.
7. Afterwards Gen. Sir Burke Cuppage, K.C.B., and col.-comdt. R.A. Son of Lt.-Gen. Wm. Cuppage, R.A., by the widow of Maj. Cairnes, 39th Foot, whose son’s death has already been recorded. D. 19th April, 1877.
1. This gallant soldier was son of Maj. John Lloyd, 46th Foot, A.D.C. to Sir H. Clinton during the American War, by Corbetta, dau. of the Ven. George Holcombe, Archdeacon of Carmarthen. Bn. 2nd Dec., 1778. D. at Brussels 29th July, 1815, of a wound recd. at Waterloo.
2. Son of Lt.-Gen. Henry Rudyerd, R.E. Attained rank of col. in 1846, and d. at Whitby, 29th July, 1847.
3. Probably son of Adm. Wells, one of whose sons, in 1815, was a subaltern in the R.E. Retd. on h. p. 27th Oct., 1826. D. at Slade, 29th Dec., 1861.
4. Appears to have been the 7th son of Joseph Phelps, of Moyallon, co. Down. Retd. on h. p. 4th Aug., 1822. D. unm., 13th Dec., 1827.
5. Second son of John Harvey, of Mount Pleasant, co. Wexford, by Mary, dau. of Wm. Harrison, of Castle Harrison, co. Cork. “Left his bride (Eliz., dau. of Col. Paulet Colebrooke, R.A.) at the church door to join his battery in the Netherlands.” Lost his right arm at Waterloo. Recd. a pens. of £70 per ann., and was appointed to the Invalid Batt. in 1817. Retd. on f. p. in 1819, and d. at Eltham, 18th Aug., 1826, leaving issue.
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’s History 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.
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.
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’s R.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.