23 War Services of the General Officers.
17 April 1809. Served with the R. M. Battalion at the capture of Guadaloupe in 1810 (Army
War Medal with Clasp). Served on the Coast of France in 1811, and blockading the Texel
and Coast of France in 1812-14. Present at the battle of Algiers in 1816 (Naval War Medal
with Clasp).
39 Major General Childs served in H. M. S. Gibraltar, blockading Cherbourg, L'Orient
and Basque Roads, and frequently in boats cutting out French coasters. Early in 1813 he
volunteered to serve in the 1st Battalion under Colonel Sir Richard Williams in the Chesapeake,
and was at the attack of Craney Island, taking of the enemy's camp at Hampton, and capture
of Kent Island, and in many minor engagements on the enemy's coast; after which he accom¬
panied the battalion to Canada, and was actively employed on the Frontiers, and frequently in
command of gun-boats on Lake Champlain. On the 11th Sept. 1814 he was engaged on board
the Confiance, in one of the most severe actions fought during the war, in which Commodore
Downie (the captain of the ship), Captain Anderson, R.M., and 41 men were killed, and
upwards of 100 wounded, out of a complement of 260. He also served the Syrian campaign
(Medal) of 1840, including the attack and capture of Sidon, capture of Beyrout, bombardment
of Acre, and other desultory services. Has received the War Medal with one Clasp.
40 Lieut. General the Honourable William Arbuthnott served in the Peninsula, and was
present at the passage of the Douro, and the battles of Oporto, Talavera, and Busaco : for
the two last he has received the War Medal with two Clasps.
41 Lieut. General Blaehley served in the Peninsula and France from Feb. 1812 to Aug.
1814, including the siege and capture of Badajoz, affair of Castrajon, battle of Salamanca,
capture of Madrid and the Retiro, siege of Burgos and retreat from thence, affair of Osma,
battle of Vittoria, siege and capture of San Sebastian (both operations), passage of the Bidassoa
and the Nivelle, actions of the 9th, 10th, 11th, and 12th Dec. 1813, in front of Bayonne,
passage of the Adour, investment of Bayonne and repulse of the sortie, on which occasion he
was wounded in the head by a musket-ball. He has received the Silver War Medal with five
Clasps.
42 Lieut. General Belson served in the Peninsula and South of France from July 1809 to
the end of the war in 1814, including the retreat from Talavera, action in front of Almeida,
action of the Coa, battle of Busaco, actions at Pombal, Redinha, Cazal Nova, Foz d'Arouce,
and Sabugal; battle of Fuentes d'Onor, actions on the heights of the Agueda, sieges of Ciudad
Rodrigo and Badajoz, actions at Castrajon (severely wounded), San Munos, San Milan, and
Osma; battle of Yittoria, action with the French, 28th June 1813, in the morning before they
entered Pampeluna, in which he captured their last gun from Vittoria ; actions in the Pyrenees,
passage of the Nivelle, Nive, and G&ve d'Oleron; and battle of Orthes, besides various minor
affairs and skirmishes. He has received the War Medal with nine Clasps.
43 Lieut. General Bowers was slightly wounded at Waterloo.
44 Lieut. General T. M. Williams previously to entering the Army served five years as Mid¬
shipman in the Navy, and was engaged in tlie attack of the French Fleet by Admiral Cornwallis on
the2l8tAug. 1805. Assistedin the disembarkation of the British Army in Portugal in Aug. 1808,
and at its embarkation during and after the battle of Corunna in 1809. Accompanied the
expedition to Walcheren the same year, and served in the squadron of gun-boats in the Scheldt
covering the disembarkation of the army, and at the bombardment and capture of the fortresses
of Ter Vere, Ramakins, and Flushing. Landed with a division of sailors on the Island of
South Beveland, and was present at the taking of Fort Batz, and at the subsequent defence and
repulse of the enemy in their repeated efforts to repossess themselves of that important post;
also in frequent gun-boat actions co-operating with the army during their evacuation of those
islands in 1810. He quitted the Navy and entered the Army in Feb. 1811, and joined the 4th
Begt. in Portugal in August of the same year, and served in that corps and the 77th, into which
he was promoted from that period, to the termination of that war in 1814, witliout being a day
absent from his Regt. He was present at the siege and storming of Badajoz, at the operations
on the Bidassoa and Adour, and affairs at St. Jean de Luz, and at the Mayor's House in front
of Bidart in Dec. 1813, and at the investment of Bayonne and repulse of the sortie. He has
received the War Medal with one Clasp for Badajoz.
45 Lord Albemarle served the Waterloo campaign with the 14th Foot.
46 Lieut. General Sandilands served with the expedition to Walcheren; also the campaign
of 1815, and was engaged on the 17th June with the Horse Artillery in covering the retiring
movement from Quatre Bras, and on the 18th of June he was present at the battle of Waterloo.
47 Major General Parker has the war medal with one clasp, and the Cross of the Tower
and Sword of Portugal.
48 Major General Wortham served the campaigns of 1813 and 14 in Spain and France,
including the siege of St. Sebastian, from 20th Aug. to 9th Sept. 1813; battles of Orthes and
Toulouse (War Medal with three Clasps). Served afterwards with the army in America,
from 14th Sept. 1814, to 24th May 1815, including the attack on the American Lines before
New Orleans,8th Jan. 1815,and the siege and capture ofFortBowyer fromSth to Uth Feb.1813.
49 Major General Harold served the campaign and battle of Corunna, for which he has
received the War Medal with one Clasp. Expedition to Walcheren and siege of Flushing.
60 Major General George Elliot served with the Royal Marine Battalion in co-operation
with the Spanish troops against the Carlists in 1837, and received the Cross of San Fernando,
1st Class. Served on the China expedition (Medal), and was wounded in the attack on the
intrenched camps on the heights of Segoan, loth March 184-2. Was present at the bombard¬
ment of Odessa, 22nd April 1854 ; landed with the Royal Marines for the defence of Eupa-
toria; was at the siege of Sebastopol (Medal and Clasp, 5th Class of the Medjidie, and Turkish
Medal).
61 Major General Langford served with the Battalion in Spain from June 1836 to Sept.
1840, and was present in the actions of Fuenterabia and Hernani, besides various minor affairs