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  • Adjutant General. He was in fact the second of two RMC-trained staff officers serving as Deputy Assistant Adjutant Generals in the Adjutant G …

  • circumstances.88 The most able cadets, on the other hand, once they had qualified for a commission could remain at the college to continue t …

  • Third son of Reverend Henry Hardinge. Gentleman, Ensign without purchase 23/7/1799 (vice McGill promoted), Queen ’s Rangers (Upper Canada).4 …

  • Sandhurst Occasional Papers No 32 The Impact of Royal Military College-Trained Officers on the Battle of Waterloo Part One: Wellington’s Staf …

  • his normal duties of helping to copy and distribute De Lancey’s movement orders on 15 June, Lieutenant Jackson intervened in the bottleneck …

  • (The recently acquired role of intelligence gathering by the Quartermaster General’s Department in addition to its more prosaic duties was e …

  • During the Waterloo campaign Disbrowe and his fellow former cadet Augustus Cuyler (see below) were the two ADCs108 on the staff of Major Gen …

  • ADCs AND BRIGADE MAJ ORS Headguarters, Commander-in-Chief Allied Army of the Netherlands Lieutenant Colonel John William Fremantle, 2'“l Bat …

  • Augustus Cuyler was a cadet in the Junior Department of the Royal Military College for ten months. He reached the 3rd Class of Instruction b …

  • Alexander Abercromby of the Coldstream Guards (son of Sir Ralph Abercromby killed in the Egyptian Campaign of 1801293) had served in Holland …

  • (vice Hall retired), I“ Battalion 43’” F oot.346 Admitted to the Senior Department of the RMC April 1813.347 Left the RMC due to ill health …

  • serve twice in the Peninsula War for a total of three years and four months, and in1811, the first year of his second tour of duty there he …

  • According to fellow former cadet Lieutenant Basil Jackson of the Quartermaster General’s Department Hill, a portly young man, had been nickn …

  • Captain Lord Arthur Moyses William Hill (half pay), 10th (or The Prince of Wales’s Own Royal) Regiment of Light Dragoons (Hussars) Gentleman …

  • New South Wales in 1825 Dumaresq became his ADC.146 Dumaresq retired from the army in 1834 and became Commissioner (manager) of the Australi …

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  • From 1836 to 1838 Shaw was Inspector General of the Royal Irish Constabulary. During this time, he was promoted to Brevet Colonel in 1837. I …

  • Indeed, the term ‘Colours’ normally only refers to the Standards and Guidons carried by cavalry regiments and the Colours carried by infantr …

  • Bamford, A, Triumphs and Disasters: Eyewitness Accounts of the Netherlands Campaigns 1813-1814, Frontline Books 2016. Barrett, C R B, The 7* …