Waterloo 1815,

Footnotes

M.I.D. 20.4.1814.

Ex Col.Murray's Collection 1908.

Ensign, 15.8.1805; Lieutenant 12.5.1808; Captain 3.9.1818; Half Pay 16.12.1821.

Served with the 91st in the Peninsula between 1808-09, present at Roleia, Vimiera, Corunna and in the Walcheren Expedition. Severely wounded at Orthes in 1814. Served with Captain D.Campbell's Company in Waterloo. Died 1 May 1835.

The lot comes with a copied letter to the Rt Honble Lord Fitzroy Somerset as follows:

My Lord

I most respectfully take the liberty of addressing your Lordship to represent that as there appears little or no chance of my being again reinstated on full pay your Lordship would be pleased to recommend to the proper quarter that a reasonable chance would be allowed me in lieu of my half pay, to enable me if possible to enter upon some business by which I may support myself and family with greater comfort. I entered the service in the year 1805 in the 1st Battn 91st Regt, with which I regularly served in all its campaigns, until I was put on Half Pay in 1821, being a period of about Sixteen years & three months - I served with that Battalion in Holland, Portugal, Spain and France, and had a Musket Ball through my left cheek bone which came out under my ear, in the Battle of Orthes. I had always been anxious of being reinstated on full pay and had stated that anxiety in the circular sent to Officers on Half Pay, some years since-
I am 44 years of age. I therefore very respectfully beg that your Lordship may be pleased to intimateto me what allowance would be made in lieu of Half Pay that I may decide on either alternative to accepting the commented allowance or remain as I am I have the Honor to be
My Lord
Your Worships Most Ofl
& Most Humble Servant
2nd July
1834 Alex Campbell