Catalogue description In Letters from various persons. Addressed to Lieutenant Colonel Evans and Major Shaw,...

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Details of WO 28/12
Reference: WO 28/12
Description:

In Letters from various persons.

  • Addressed to Lieutenant Colonel Evans and Major Shaw, successive Assistant Quarter Masters General at Abbeville.
  • They relate to the movement, quartering and embarkation of troops at Calais and Boulogne prior to departure for England. Regiments were mentioned by number but were mainly moving as brigades.
  • Many letters were from Lieutenant Colonel Sir J Dickson at Boulogne. Other writers include General Sir [Edward] Barnes, General Sir Denis Pack, Lieutenant Colonel Sir Charles Broke [Assistant Quarter Master General], Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Hunter Blair, Captain George Villiers [Royal Horse Guards], Captain [Edward] Northey [52nd Regiment], Captain Read (Royal Staff Corps), Cornet William Blathwayt (3rd Dragoons) and local French officials (mainly in French).
  • Other named officers include General Sir Hussey Vivian, General Sir M Power, Colonel John Maclean, Colonel Walker, Lieutenant Colonel [Thomas] Athorpe [Royal Horse Guards], Lieutenant Colonel [Sir Robert] Gardiner (Royal Horse Artillery), Lieutenant Colonel [Henry] Austen [59th Regiment], Majors [Edward] Whinyates and [Richard ] Dyas (Royal Artillery), Captain Sir [Hew] Ross (Royal Horse Artillery) and Lieutenant Hill (43rd Regiment).
Date: 1815 Dec 1-1816 Jan 31
Held by: The National Archives, Kew
Legal status: Public Record(s)
Closure status: Open Document, Open Description

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