Son of Lt.-Gen. Wm. Neville Cameron, H.E.I.C.S., by Charlotte, dau. of Sir Wm. Gordon, 7th Bart. of Embo, co. Sutherland. Capt. Wm. Gordon Cameron lost his right arm at Waterloo and had other severe wounds. K.H., made bt. lt.-col., 7th July, 1825, and placed on h. p. the following day. D. at Christchurch, Hants, 26th May, 1856.
Capt. F. Read, Rl. Staff Corps.
Francis Read d. a capt. in the same regt., 4th June, 1829. He appears to have been a relative of Lt.-Col. Wm. Read, who d. at Madras, 21st Aug., 1827, whilst holding the appointment of D.Q.M.G. Another of the same family (Constantine) was a Lieut. in Rl. Staff Corps, 1830.
Lt. P.T. de Barrailler, 33rd Foot.
Peter Toussaint de Barrailler was, as his name implies, of Gallic origin. The irony of fate decreed that he should use his sword against the Gallic army in 1815. His name disappeared from the Army List a few years after 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.
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