QUATRE-BRAS
- 16th June 1815
Staff
Ensign James,
Lord HAY - 1st Foot Guards - Killed
Aide-de-Camp
to Lord Saltoun. Born 7th July 1797. Eldest son of William, 16th
Earl of Errol, and Alicia Eliot. Shot dead by a French cavalry
skirmisher.
Brevet-Major
Charles SMYTH - 95th Foot - Died of Wounds.
Major of
Brigade. Born 8th January 1786. 4th son of John Smyth, of Heath
Hall, near Wakefield, and Lady Georgiana Fitzroy.
7th (Queen's
Own) Light Dragoons (Hussars)
Major Edward
HODGE - Killed at Gennape - 17th June 1815
1st Foot
Guards
Captain and
Lieutenant-Colonel William MILLER - Died of Wounds at Brussels -
19th June 1815.
2nd son of
Sir William Miller and Grizel Chalmers.
Lieutenant
and Captain Thomas BROWN - Killed
From
Oxfordshire.
Ensign Samuel
S. BARRINGTON - Killed
3rd son of
Rev. Lord Viscount Barrington and Elizabeth Adair.
1st Foot (Royal
Scots)
Captain
William BUCKLEY - Killed
Ensign James
Grant KENNEDY - Killed
Aged 16, the
3rd son of Dr. William Kennedy, of Inverness. Killed carrying the
Colours.
32nd Foot
(Cornwall)
Captain
Thomas CASSAN - Killed
Son of
Captain John Cassan, 56th Foot.
Captain
Edward WHITTY - Killed
42nd Foot
(Royal Highland)
Lieutenant-Colonel
Sir Robert MACARA, KCB - Killed
He was
wounded and was being carried off the field by four men when a
group of French soldiers surrounded them and cut them down.
Captain
George DAVIDSON - died of wounds
Born 1776. Ensign 92nd Foot 1794. Captain Huntly &
Drumblade Volunteers 1804-07. Captain 42nd Foot 1807-1815.
Slightly wounded at the storming and capture of Fort St. Michael,
Burgos 19 Sept. 1812. Wounded Quatre Bras, died of wounds at
Brussels June 1815.
Memorial at Huntly, Aberdeenshire - "Brevet Major George Davidson (Eldest
son of George and Anne Davidson) mortally wounded while
commanding his Regt. The 42nd (Black Watch) at Quatre Bras, June
1815. 1776 - 1815. Medallion, portrait and Waterloo Medal
presented by his grand nephew the Rev. R. Meredith Sharpe."
(thanks to Peter Thorn for inscription and picture.)
Lieutenant
Robert GORDON - Killed
Son of Rev.
John Gordon.
Ensign George
GERARD - Killed
Eldest son
of George Gerard.
44th Foot
(East Sussex)
Lieutenant
William TOMKINS - Killed
Ensign Peter
COOKE - Killed
Killed while
carrying the King's Colour. Born 17 May 1789, 4th son of Richard
Cooke, of Stourbridge, Tipperary and Mary Laylor.
69th Foot
(South Lincolnshire)
Lieutenant-Colonel
Charles MORICE - Killed
Lieutenant
Edmund Martin WIGHTWICK - Died of Wounds
Wounded at
Quatre-Bras and died 17 June.
92nd Foot
(Gordon Highlanders)
Lieutenant-Colonel
John CAMERON - Killed
Aged 44. One
of 6 children of Ewen Cameron, of Inverscadale and Lucy Campbell.
His body was returned to Scotland and buried in Kilmallie
churchyard.
Captain
William Charles GRANT - died of wounds
Husband of
Susan Grant. Their son was later General Sir Thornton Grant.
Captain
William LITTLE - Killed
Lieutenant
James John CHISHOLM - Killed
Ensign Abel
BECHER - Killed
Ensign John M.
R. MCPHERSON - Killed
95th Foot
Lieutenant
William LISTER - Killed
Wounded at
Quatre-Bras and died 17 June.
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