The Waterloo Roll Call. Charles Dalton
Waterloo.
Lt. Basil Jackson, Rl. Staff Corps.
The following memoir of this distinguished veteran appeared in the Illustrated London News of 9th Nov., 1889:—“A gallant military veteran, who has died at the great age of ninety-four, was reckoned one of the four surviving officers of the British Army present at the battle of Waterloo. Colonel Basil Jackson, born at Glasgow on June 27, 1795, was son of Major Basil Jackson; he entered the Military College in 1808, and, having received his commission as ensign, did not join a Line regiment, but was transferred to the Royal Staff Corps, where he learned the duties of the Quartermaster-General’s Department and engineering. In that branch of the Army he was employed in Holland and Belgium, in 1814 and 1815, and in the Waterloo campaign did good service in clearing the roads, and on the Duke of Wellington’s Staff. He accompanied the army to Paris, and was afterwards selected to go to St. Helena with Napoleon. In that island he remained till about a year and a half before Napoleon’s death. At a later period he was employed in Nova Scotia and in Canada, taking part in the construction of the Rideau Canal. He held the Professorship of Military Surveying in the East India Company’s Military College at Addiscombe during twenty years. After retiring from the army he lived at Hillsborough, near Ross, in Herefordshire.” M. 28th March, 1828, the dau. of Col. Muttlebury, C.B.
Lt. A. Brauns, Rl. Staff Corps.
Probably a son of the Col. John Brauns, of the German Legion, who was killed at the battle of Talavera. The above officer bore the names of “Augustus Christ. Gotleib.” Was placed on h. p. as lieut., in 1819. Living 1846.
COMMANDANT AT HEAD-QUARTERS.
Col. Sir Colin Campbell, K.C.B., 2nd Ft. Gds.
5th son of John Campbell, of Melfort, by Colina, dau. of John Campbell, of Auchalader. In 1792 he ran away from Perth Academy, and entered himself on the books of a ship bound for the West Indies. He was met in the fruit market at Kingston, Jamaica, by his brother Patrick (aftds. an admiral), a lieut. on board a man-of-war, who brought him home. In 1793 became a midshipman on board an East Indiaman. Two years later we find him serving as a lieut. in the 3rd Batt. Breadalbane Fencibles, and in 1799 he was appointed ens. in a West India Regt. Exchanged to the Ross-shire Buffs, and as capt., served under Sir A. Wellesley at the storming of Ahmednuggur, where his distinguished gallantry won him a brevet majority. At Assaye he had two horses shot under him, and was severely wounded. He accompanied Sir A. Wellesley to the Peninsula, and was for a considerable time on the staff of the army. For his services in Spain he obtained the gold cross with six clasps, and in Jan., 1815, was made K.C.B. He was a splendid soldier, but a bad French scholar. “When he wished his dinner to be arranged on the table, he used, as it were, to address the dishes, ‘Bif-teck venez içi! Petits pâtés allez là!’” (anecdote by Wellington). Was Governor of Ceylon from 1840–7. During his residence there he frequently heard from his great chief, Wellington, his attached friend. “We are both growing old,” wrote the Duke to Campbell; “God knows if we shall ever meet again. Happen what may, I shall never forget our first meeting under the walls of Ahmednuggur.” Sir Colin returned to England in June, 1847, and d. on the 13th of same month, in London, aged seventy-one, and was buried in St. James’s Church, Piccadilly.
BRITISH AND HANOVERIAN ARMY
AT
WATERLOO,
As formed in Divisions and Brigades on the 18th June, 1815.
| CAVALRY. | |
| Commanded by Lieut.-Gen. the Earl of Uxbridge, G.C.B. | |
| 1st Brigade.—Commanded by Major-Gen. Lord Edward Somerset, K.C.B. | |
| 1st Life Guards | Lieut.-Col. Ferrior. |
| 2nd ” | Lieut.-Col. the Hon. E.P. Lygon. |
| Royal Horse Guards (Blue) | Lieut.-Col. Sir Robert Hill. |
| 1st Dragoon Guards | Lieut.-Col. Fuller (Col.). |
| 2nd Brigade.—Major Gen. Sir William Ponsonby, K.C.B. | |
| 1st, or Royal Dragoons | Lieut.-Col. A.B. Clifton. |
| 2nd (or Royal N.B.) Dragoons | Lieut.-Col. J.I. Hamilton. |
| 6th, or Inniskilling Dragoons | Lieut.-Col. J. Muter (Col.). |
| 3rd Brigade.—Major-Gen. W.B. Dornberg. | |
| 23rd Light Dragoons | Lieut.-Col. the Earl of Portarlington (Col.). |
| 1st ” K.G.L. | Lieut.-Col. J. Bulow. |
| 2nd ” ” | Lieut.-Col. C. de Jonquiera. |
| 4th Brigade.—Major-Gen. Sir John O. Vandeleur, K.C.B. | |
| 11th Light Dragoons | Lieut.-Col. J.W. Sleigh. |
| 12th ” | Lieut.-Col. the Hon. F.C. Ponsonby (Col.). |
| 16th ” | Lieut.-Col. J. Hay. |
| 5th Brigade.—Major-Gen. Sir Colquhoun Grant, K.C.B. | |
| 7th Hussars | Col. Sir Edward Kerrison. |
| 15th ” | Lieut.-Col. L.C. Dalrymple. |
| 2nd ” K.G.L. | Lieut.-Col. Linsingen. |
| 6th Brigade.—Major-Gen. Sir Hussey Vivian, K.C.B. | |
| 10th Royal Hussars | Lieut.-Col. Quentin (Col.). |
| 18th Hussars | Lieut.-Col. the Hon. H. Murray. |
| 1st ” K.G.L. | Lieut.-Col. A. Wissell. |
| 7th Brigade.—Col. Sir F. Arenschildt, K.C.B. | |
| 13th Light Dragoons | Lieut.-Col. P. Doherty. |
| 3rd Hussars, K.G.L. | Lieut.-Col. Meyer. |
| Col. Baron Estorff. | |
| Prince Regent’s Hussars | Lieut.-Col. Count Kielmansegge. |
| Bremen and Verden Hussars | Col. Busche. |
| BRITISH HORSE ARTILLERY. | ||
| Batteries |  | Major Bull’s (Howitzers). Lieut.-Col. Webber Smith’s. Lieut.-Col. Sir Robert Gardiner’s. Capt. Whinyates’s (with rockets). Capt. Mercer’s. Major Ramsay’s. |
| INFANTRY. | |
| First Division. | |
| Major-Gen. George Cooke. | |
| 1st Brigade.—Maj.-Gen. P. Maitland. | |
| 1st Foot Guards, 2nd Batt. | Major H. Askew (Col.). |
| ” ” 3rd ” | Major Hon. Wm. Stewart. |
| 2nd Brigade.—Major-Gen. Sir J. Byng. | |
| Coldstream Guards, 2nd Batt. | Major A.G. Woodford (Col.). |
| 3rd Regt. Foot Guards, 2nd Batt. | Major F. Hepburn (Col.). |
| ARTILLERY. | ||
| Lieut.-Col. Adye. | ||
| Batteries | { | Capt. Sandham’s Foot Battery. Major Kuhlman’s Horse ” (K.G.L.) |
| Second Division. | |
| Lieut.-Gen. Sir H. Clinton, G.C.B. | |
| 3rd Brigade.—Major-Gen. F. Adam. | |
| 62nd Foot, 1st Batt. | Lieut.-Col. Sir J. Colborne, K.C.B. |
| 71st ” ” | Lieut.-Col. T. Reynell. |
| 95th ” 2nd Rifles | Major J. Ross (Lieut.-Col.). |
| 95th ” 3rd ” | Major A.G. Norcott (Lieut.-Col.). |
| 1st Brigade, K.G.L.—Col. Du Plat. | |
| 1st Line Batt., K.G.L. | Major W. Robertson. |
| 2nd ” ” | Major G. Muller. |
| 3rd ” ” | Lieut.-Col. F. de Wissell. |
| 4th ” ” | Major F. Reb. |
| 3rd Hanoverian Brigade.—Col. Halkett. | |
| Mila Batt. Bremervorde. | Lieut.-Col. Schulenberg. |
| Duke of York’s, 2nd Batt. | Major Count Munster. |
| ” 3rd ” | Major Baron Hunefeld. |
| Mila Batt., Salzgitter | Major Hammerstein. |
| ARTILLERY. | ||
| Lieut.-Col. Gold. | ||
| Batteries | { | Capt. Bolton’s Foot Battery (British). Major A. Sympher’s Horse ditto (K.G.L.). |
| Third Division. | |
| Lieut.-Gen. Baron Alten. | |
| 5th | |