30th (or the CAMBRIDGESHIRE) REGIMENT OF FOOT.

(2nd Battalion.)

Rank in the
LIEUT.-COLONEL.Regiment.Army.
[1]Alexander Hamilton, W.25July,18114 June, 1811
MAJORS.
[2]Morris Wm. Bailey, W.26Dec.1808Lt.-Col., 4 June, 1814
[3]Charles A. Vigoreux (sic), W.4June,1813Lt.-Col, 21 June, 1813
CAPTAINS.
Thos. Walker Chambers, K.2Apr.1807Maj., 16 Feb. 1815
[4]Alex. MʻNabb, K.11May,1809
[5]Robert Howard1Sept.1813
[6]Arthur Gore, W.11Feb.181414 July, 1808
[7]Matthew Ryan26May,1814Maj., 4 June, 1813
[8]Donald Sinclair7July,1814
[9]James Finucane2Mar.181515 Aug., 1811
[10]Richard Heaviside15June,1815
LIEUTENANTS.
[11]Benj. Walter Nicholson15Apr.1806
[12]John Gowan8May,1806
[13]Richard Mayne, W.8June,1809
[14]Matthias Andrews, Adjt., W.19Sept.1809
[15]Richard Chas. Elliott, W.23June,1811
[16]A.W. Freear24June,1811
[17]John Rumley, W.25June,1811
[18]Andrew Baillie27June,1811
[19]Robert Daniel, W.15July,1811
[20]Parke Percy Neville17July,1811
[21]John Roe, W.18July,1811
[22]Theophilus O’Halloran8Aug.1811
[23]Richard Harrison, W.11Sept.1811
[24]Robert Hughes, W.29Oct.1812
[25]Purefoy Lockwood, W.22Apr.1813
[26]John Pratt, W.6May,1813
Henry Beere, K.7Sept.1814
[27]Francis Tincombe8Sept.1814
Edmund Prendergast, K.23Nov.1814
[28]Wm. Ouseley Warren, W.24Nov.1814
[29]Thomas Moneypenny (sic), W.23Mar.1815
[30]David Latouche25May,1815
[31]Robert Naylor Rogers14June,1815
[32]Edward Drake15June,1815
ENSIGNS.
John James, K.2Sept.1813
[33]Edw. Nevil Macready8Sept.1814
James Bullen, K.23Nov.1814
PAYMASTER.
[34]Hugh Boyd Wray9Aug.1806
QUARTERMASTER.
[35]John Williamson27Oct.1814
SURGEON.
[36]J.G. Elkington11Mar.1813
ASSISTANT-SURGEONS.
[37]John Evans22Aug.1811
[38]Patrick Clarke25June,1812
Facings pale yellow. Lace silver.

[1]. This gallant officer received the thanks of Sir Thomas Picton for his services at Quatre Bras where he (Hamilton) was sev. wnded. After the battle it was thought necessary to amputate his leg; and three times had the tourniquet encircled his limb, preparatory to amputation, when each time the surgeon was called elsewhere. It was then decided to let the leg take its chance, and Hamilton eventually recovered. C.B. for Waterloo. Quitted the service in 1829 with rank of Col. All his service had been spent in “the old three tens,” as the 30th were called, and he had fought with them in Egypt and in the Pa. Had the gold medal for Salamanca. D. at Woolwich, 4th June, 1838. In his obituary notice, given in the United Service Journal, it is stated that he was nearly related to the noble house of Lothian. Whatever family he may have belonged to, he did it credit. He left a widow and two sons.

[2]. C.B. for Waterloo. Aftds. lt.-col. of 64th Regt. Retd. before 1824. D. at Bath, 28th Nov., 1845.

[3]. Lt.-Col. Vigoureux was sev. wnded. at Waterloo. C.B. Lt.-Col. of the 45th Regt., 20th Dec., 1826. D. as col. on retd. list, 24th Dec., 1841.

[4]. It appears that this officer acted as an additional A.D.C. to Gen. Sir T. Picton, at Waterloo. At the second funeral of Picton in St. Paul’s Cathedral one of the mourners was the Rev. Dr. MʻNabb, from Canada, nephew of the above. The antiquity of the MʻNabb is delightfully illustrated by the well-known remark of one of their clan that “at the flood they did not need to take refuge in Noah’s Ark, as the MʻNabbs had a boat of their own!”

[5]. Made bt.-maj. for Waterloo. Promoted maj. on unattached list, 1826, Lt.-col. 1837. D. at Wigfair, St. Asaph, 22nd Sept., 1856.

[6]. Afterwards Lt.-Gen. Arthur Gore, K.H. Son of the Hon. Richard Gore, M.P. for Donegal. D. 23rd June, 1869.

[7]. H. p. 1817.

[8]. H. p. 1817.

[9]. H. p. 1817.

[10]. H. p. 1817.

[11]. H. p. 1817.

[12]. H. p. 1818.

[13]. D. in 1827.

[14]. Capt. 16th Sept., 1827. Serving in 1830.

[15]. H. p. 1817. Capt. unattached 28th Aug., 1827. Living in 1874.

[16]. H. p. 1817.

[17]. D. 1819.

[18]. H. p. 1817.

[19]. H. p. 1819, 59th Foot.

[20]. Served in the Pa., and was twice wounded, when leading the ladder party in the escalade of the St. Vincent Bastion, at the siege of Badajoz. Sev. wnded. at the siege of Burgos, when acting as Assistant Engineer in the storm of the first line of the Castle, 4th Oct., 1812. At the bombardment of Antwerp, and assault on Bergen-op-Zoom. Served in the Mahratta War of 1817–18, and was present at battle of Maheidpore and siege of Asserghur. Commanded the left wing of the 63rd Regt. in India for some years as maj. and bt. lt.-col. Received the Legion of Honour for services rendered on board the French ship Benguile, on passage from India to Europe in August, 1831. He was also presented with the Freedom of the City of Dublin. Joined the corps of Gentlemen-at-Arms, 1st Aug., 1847, and was subsequently made a Knight of Windsor. D. at Windsor Castle, 6th Feb., 1865, aged 72.

[21]. H. p. 1823.

[22]. H. p. 1818.

[23]. D. 1819.

[24]. Maj., 1st West India Regt., 3rd March, 1843, and lt.-col. of same regt., 1st March, 1848, Col 1854. Received the Par. War medal with 4 clasps. D. in Sept., 1855.

[25]. Belonged to the Grenadier company. Ensign (aftds. Major) Macready in his interesting journal of the campaign of 1815 (printed in Historical Records of the XXX Regt., says: “Lockwood of ours had gone home with a silver plate in his skull, on which was engraved ‘bomb proof.’” H. p. 25th Aug., 1816. Living in 1846.

[26]. Exchanged to 28th Foot, 9th Dec., 1819. Major 27th Foot 22nd March, 1827. Serving in 1830.

[27]. H. p. 1817.

[28]. H. p. 1817.

[29]. Thomas Gybbon-Monypenny was descended from the ancient Scotch family of Monypenny, of Pitmillie, co. Fife; but his ancestor, Capt. James Monypenny, R.N., settled in Kent about 1714, since which date this branch of the family has chiefly resided in Kent. His father was Thos. Monypenny, of Rye, Sussex. Placed on h. p. 1817. M., 8th Jan., 1818, Silvestra Rose, eldest dau. of Robert Monypenny, of Merrington Place, Rolvenden, Kent, and had issue. Lt.-col. of the West Kent Militia. M.P. for Rye, 1837–41. D. 16th Jan., 1854.

[30]. H. p. 1816.

[31]. H. p. 19th Feb., 1818. Staff officer of pensioners at Amherstburg, Canada West, before 1836. Drowned while fishing in the Detroit river 5th May, 1854.

[32]. H. p. 1816 from 28th Foot.

[33]. Brother to the great tragedian. Joined the 2nd Batt. 30th Foot, as a volunteer, in 1814, at the age of 16. Served under Lord Lynedoch in Holland. At Waterloo, when only an ensign, commanded the light company towards the close of the battle. His private journal, in which he gives his experiences at Waterloo, is quoted from in Sir H. Havelock’s military work, entitled Three Main Questions of the Day (published in 1867) in order to show how the bravest cavalry failed again and again, at Waterloo, in breaking through the infantry squares when those squares were well provided with ammunition in addition to their bayonets. “Here come these fools again,” growled the 30th rank and file as they prepared to pour a destructive fire on the advancing French cuirassiers, which invariably emptied many saddles and sent the remainder from whence they came. Served at the siege of Asseerghur, and was aftds. milit. sec. to Sir John Wilson in Ceylon. Was promoted maj. h. p. unattached, 22nd Nov., 1839. Wrote the Life of Marshal Suvarow, which was published after his death. D. at Clevedon, 4th Nov., 1848.

[34]. H. p. 1831.

[35]. An amusing anecdote relative to this officer is given in the United Service Journal for 1838. Col. A. Hamilton of this regt., had a very valuable charger at Waterloo, and knowing that if it was shot in the battle he would only get the Government price of £20 for another charger, he exchanged horses, before going into action at Quatre Bras, with his steady old quartermaster, who, being a non-combatant, was to remain in the rear. The quartermaster’s horse was what is called a “safe convenience,” but the colonel’s charger was very high-spirited and fresh. Unaccustomed to the quietude of his position in the rear of the army, he fretted and fumed at being kept back from the excitement going on in front. His rider had a bad time of it, and was a source of much amusement to the idlers and “non-effectives” in the rearward. The narrator of this incident says that on the evening of the 16th June, 1815, Sir W. Ponsonby sent his A.D.C. to offer to buy Hamilton’s fine charger (his owner being wounded), but the bargain hung fire in some way, and the gallant Ponsonby lost his life on the 18th June, as we have seen, from being badly mounted.

[36]. Appointed assistant-surgeon 24th July, 1808. Taken prisoner at Talavera and sent to France. Exchanged. Rejoined in Portugal, after Busaco. Served at Fuentes d’Onor, Ciudad Rodrigo, Badajoz, Salamanca, and capture of Madrid. Taken prisoner after siege of Burgos when in charge of the wounded. H. p. 1817. Surgeon 1st Batt. 1st Royals in July, 1821. Transferred to 17th Lancers in Sept., 1828. Surgeon R.H.M.S. Dublin, 1814. D. there in 1853. Interred at Arbour Hill, Dublin.

[37]. Out of the regt. in 1821.

[38]. H. p. 82nd Foot 12th Jan., 1816.