Military Career
Commissioned Ensign in 4th Foot 1799.
Lieutenant in the 4th and 48th.
Captain in the 38th and 14th.
Brevet Major on 4 June 1814. His battalion, the 2nd, formed part of the force sent from Genoa to hold Marseilles during the Waterloo campaign. The 3rd battalion of his regiment was at Waterloo.
After the war he was stationed in Malta.
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