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28th Regiment at Waterloo
« on: Saturday 29 March 08 21:51 GMT (UK) »
Could I please ask for a lookup to see if Private David Harvison from the 28th Regiment was at Waterloo?

He was born in Mullaghbrack, Co Antrim and was 20 when he enlisted in 1808 and  served until 1825.

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Glen
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Re: 28th Regiment at Waterloo
« Reply #1 on: Sunday 30 March 08 10:33 BST (UK) »
One more charge and then be dumb,
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        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.

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Re: 28th Regiment at Waterloo
« Reply #2 on: Sunday 30 March 08 10:55 BST (UK) »

Thanks Scrimnet.
Bezant (London/Suffolk), West (London/Essex), Walker (Yorkshire), Phillips (West Country - believed Bristol area), Tibbetts (Warwickshire), Armstrong (Co Fermanagh), Harvison (Co Wexford), Neeb (Germany), Becker (Germany), Jakobsson (Finland). Kanneworff (Germany and Denmark)

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Re: 28th Regiment at Waterloo
« Reply #3 on: Sunday 30 March 08 11:26 BST (UK) »
There were only a unit the size of company there...The others must have been somewhere!
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        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.

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Re: 28th Regiment at Waterloo
« Reply #4 on: Sunday 30 March 08 11:33 BST (UK) »
From what I've read, they had about 50% casualties so the rest probably weren't around to collect the medal.  :'(

I'll talk to these people http://www.glosters.org.uk/archive/ and see what info they have on him.

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Glen
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Re: 28th Regiment at Waterloo
« Reply #5 on: Sunday 30 March 08 11:37 BST (UK) »
Soldiers of Gloucestershire have a forum on their site somewhere...Try that as well  ;)
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        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.

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Re: 28th Regiment at Waterloo
« Reply #6 on: Monday 21 April 08 21:48 BST (UK) »
Hi Scrimnet,

A follow up on this old thread...

I finally got other distractions out of the way and asked them on the weekend and got a phone call back today - unfortunately I missed his name.

Quote from: scrimnet on Sunday 30 March 08 11:37 BST (UK)
Soldiers of Gloucestershire have a forum on their site somewhere...Try that as well  ;)

They don't have his enlistment papers which is what I really hoped for and confirmed he wasn't at Quatre Bas or Waterloo. He was very apologetic that this ancestor wasn't there so he enjoyed my comment about how much trouble this family has given me I expect he was tucked up in bed with "man flu"  ;D ;D

They're going to send me the locations of both battallions for the 1808-1825 period I'm interested in and I can go to Kew and look up Muster Rolls - all of which I will send stuff back to the Soldiers of Gloucestershire.

Meanwhile, the latest WW1 service records have come online and a William Harvison of the 12th Lancers is available so expect some more questions. ;)

Glen
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Re: 28th Regiment at Waterloo
« Reply #7 on: Monday 21 April 08 23:42 BST (UK) »
In stand by mode... ;)
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Re: 28th Regiment at Waterloo
« Reply #8 on: Monday 21 April 08 23:49 BST (UK) »
 1751.07.01 28th Regiment of Foot
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  1761 West Indies 
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  1767 Ireland 
  1776 at sea (embarked at Cork) 
  1776.05 North Carolina: Cape Fear 
  1776 American revolution 
  1778.11 East Florida   
  1778.12 West Indies 
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  1783 England 
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  1795 West Indies: Barbados det at Gibraltar (1798: Minorca) 
  1800 Malta 
  1801 Egypt 
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  1805.12 Hanover 
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  1806.02.15 at sea 
  1806.02 England 
  1807 Copenhagen 
  1808.05.10 at sea   
  1808.05.17 Sweden: Göteborg   
  1808.07.03 at sea   
  1808.07.15 England   
  1808 Portugal 
  1808 Peninsular war   
  1809.01 at sea (embarked at Corunna) det remained in Spain
  1809.01 England det in Peninsular war
  1809 Walcheren 
  1810 Gibraltar 
  1810 Peninsular war 
  1814 France 
  1814 Ireland 
  1815 Belgium 
  1815 Waterloo 
  1815 France 
  1816 England 
  1818 Malta & Ionian Islands   
 1829.03 Ireland (landed at Cork)   
  1829 Buttevant joined depot
  1829.10 Galway (dets at Gort, Dunmore, Tuam)   
  1831 Dublin   
  1832.04 Naas (dets in Queen's County, Kildare, Wicklow)
  1832.07 Fermoy   
  1832.11 Cork   
  1833.07 Limerick   
  1833.11 Dublin   
  1834 England: Liverpool (dets at Mold and Chester)   
  1834.07 Manchester   
  1834 Chatham   
  1835.02 at sea ( 23 ships with convicts)
  1835 New South Wales: Sydney (Hive wrecked in Wreck Bay) 
  1835 Parramatta   
  1841 Sydney (dets at Moreton Bay and Melbourne)
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  1842.06.30 ran aground on Slasher's Reef, off Queensland (refloated next day) 
 1842 India: Scinde   
    Bombay   
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  1854 Turkey   
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  1856.05 Malta   
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  1858 India: Bombay   
  1865 UK   
  1869 Gibraltar & Malta   
  1874 Hong Kong   
  1877 Singapore, Malacca & Penang   
  1879 UK   
  1881.07.01 1st Battalion, The Gloucestershire Regiment
  1881 Ireland: Birr   
  1885 England: York   
  1888 Ireland: Dublin   
  1891 England: Aldershot   
  1893 Malta   
  1895 Egypt   
  1897 India: Calcutta   
  1899.10 South Africa 
  1903 India: Lucknow   
  1906 Meean Meer   
  1908 Dalhousie   
  1910 England: Portsmouth   
  1914 Bordon
One more charge and then be dumb,
            When the forts of Folly fall,
        May the victors when they come
            Find my body near the wall.
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