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The Grenadiers of the 1st Foot Guard Regiment on parade at the Lustgarten in Potsdam in 1894. The 1st Foot Guard Regiment (German: 1. Garde-Regiment zu Fuß) was an infantry regiment of the Royal Prussian Army formed in 1806 after Napoleon defeated Prussia in the Battle of Jena–Auerstedt.
Captain C. Allix, 1st Foot Guards; Captain George Bowles, Coldstream Guards; Captain F. Dawkins, 1st Foot Guards, ADC; Captain Disbrowe, 1st Foot Guards, ADC to Lieutenant-General Cooke; Captain Henry Dumaresq, 9th Foot, ADC to Sir John Byng (wounded in the chest by a musket ball while delivering a dispatch to the Duke of Wellington) [16] [27] [28]
Lord Hay was the eldest son and heir of William Hay, 17th Earl of Erroll and his second wife, Alicia Eliot (d. 1812).. Hay, an ensign in the 1st Foot Guards, was killed at the Battle of Quatre Bras while serving as aide-de-camp to General Maitland.
Foot guards functions in the Italian Army are held by the Granatieri di Sardegna regiment. The foot guards functions in the Italian Army are held by the Granatieri di Sardegna Brigade, direct heir of the original Guards' Regiment founded on April 18, 1659. The brigade's two regiments of guards infantry have a highly distinguished combat history ...
On 18 June, the day of Waterloo, he commanded two battalions of the 1st Foot Guards, each 1000-men strong and led the Guards in repelling the final assault of the French Imperial Guard. [4] For his service at Waterloo, Maitland was created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath , (KCB) on 22 June 1815, the Dutch Order of William and the ...
He was born 1789, the son of Dr. Batty of Hastings and started to study medicine at Caius College, Cambridge, being awarded an M.B. in 1813.He left his studies to join the Grenadier Guards (then the 1st Foot Guards), with whom he served in the campaign of the Western Pyrenees and at Waterloo, where he was wounded and wrote an account of the Battle of Waterloo in a series of letters. [1]
Captain William Barton JP (c.1796 - 14 May 1874) was a British soldier and a Ceylonese public servant, the fifth Postmaster General of Ceylon (1859-1867). [1]In 1811 Barton was gazetted as an ensign in the 87th (The Prince of Wales's Irish) Regiment of Foot [2] and in 1813 was transferred to the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards, where he was promoted to Lieutenant and Captain in 1815. [3]
The second son of Henry Ellison, of Hebburn, County Durham, and Henrietta, daughter of John Isaacson, [1] he joined the 1st Regiment of Foot Guards as an ensign by purchase on 17 December 1807. He became a lieutenant and captain on 20 December 1812 then saw service at Cádiz , Spain in 1811 and during the Peninsular War from 1812 to 1814.