The Highlanders officers

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 42. Chapters: Gordon Highlanders officers, Queen's Own Highlanders officers, Thomas Picton, Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton, Sir Martin Lindsay, 1st Baronet, Frederick Stovin, Hector MacDonald, Graeme Lamb, Jack White, George MacDonald Fraser, Robert Craufurd, George Stuart White, George Gordon, 5th Duke of Gordon, Ivan Lyon, George Herbert, 11th Earl of Pembroke, Bernard Forbes, 8th Earl of Granard, George Croil, Malcolm Barclay-Harvey, Aylmer Haldane, Douglas Young, James Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie, Beachcroft Towse, Henry Vane, 2nd Duke of Cleveland, Peter Grant Peterkin, John Forbes-Sempill, 18th Lord Sempill, Frederick Martin, Jeremy Mackenzie, Sir Eric Errington, 1st Baronet, Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill, Alexander Abercromby, Geoffrey Hallowes, James Anson Otho Brooke, James Sinclair, 19th Earl of Caithness, William Eagleson Gordon, Matthew Fontaine Maury Meiklejohn, Peter Graham, Malcolm Munthe, John Richardson, John Abercromby, Dudley Gordon, 3rd Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, Laurence Carr, William Robertson, Charles W. H. Douglas, James Forbes-Robertson, Murdoch McKenzie Wood, Thomas Smith, Walter Campbell, Basil Crockett, David Gordon, 4th Marquess of Aberdeen and Temair, David Reginald Younger, Allan Ebenezer Ker, Alick Buchanan-Smith, Richard Wadeson, Peter Hunter, William Henry Dick-Cunyngham, John Annand Fraser, Gordon Kerr, John Gibb Thom, George Keppel, David McLaren Bain, George FitzMaurice, 6th Earl of Orkney, Ralph Frankland-Payne-Gallwey, George Vaughan Hart. Excerpt: Lieutenant General Sir Thomas Picton GCB (August 1758 - 18 June 1815) was a Welsh British Army officer who fought in a number of campaigns for Britain, and rose to the rank of lieutenant general. According to the historian Alessandro Barbero, Picton was "respected for his courage and feared for his irascible temperament." He is chiefly remembered for his exploits under the Duke of Wellington in the Iberian Peninsular War and at the Battle of Waterloo, where he was mortally wounded while his division stopped d'Erlon's corps attack against the allied centre left, and as a result became the most senior officer to die at Waterloo. Picton was the younger son of Thomas Picton, and was born in Poyston, Pembrokeshire, Wales. In 1771 he obtained an ensign's commission in the 12th Regiment of Foot, but he did not join until two years later. The regiment was then stationed at Gibraltar, where he remained until he was made captain in the 75th in January 1778, at which point he then returned to Britain. The regiment was disbanded five years later, and Picton quelled a mutiny amongst the men by his prompt personal action and courage, and was promised the rank of major as a reward. He did not receive it, and after living in retirement on his father's estate for nearly twelve years, he went out to the West Indies in 1794 on the strength of a slight acquaintance with Sir John Vaughan, the commander-in-chief, who made him his aide-de-camp and gave him a captaincy in the 17th foot. Shortly afterwards he was promoted major in the 58th foot. Under Sir Ralph Abercromby, who succeeded Vaughan in 1795, he was present at the capture of St Lucia (after which he was promoted to lieutenant colonel of the 56th Foot) and then that of St Vincent.After the reduction of Trinidad, Abercromby made Picton governor of the island. For the next 5 years he held the island with a garrison he considered inadequate against the threats of internal unr...