IX 
CHARLES WHINYATES, K.C.B., K.H. 
orders as having been the cause of our defeat, and not your cavalry. Mind you say 
this to him. Promise me that you will give him this message/* 
Captain Whinyates was promoted to 1st captain in January 1813, which occa¬ 
sioned his return to England. During his service in the Peninsula as 2nd captain 
of Horse Artillery for Si years, owing to a peculiar regulation of the Board of 
Ordnance, no 2nd captain of artillery or engineers was eligible for brevet rank, 
and he received no promotion, although in command of the troop for a consider¬ 
able time, during which it was repeatedly engaged with the enemy, and its conduct 
honourably mentioned in despatches several times; this regulation was rescinded 
soon after his leaving the army, and several of his contemporaries who remained 
with it, received the promotion by brevet, which, owing to the above regulation, he 
did not obtain until after the battle of Waterloo; his advancement in the service 
being thus much retarded, as well as his nomination to the higher classes of the 
Bath and Guelph. 
His next service was in Prance and the Netherlands from April 1814 to January 
1816 ; and with the Army of Occupation from August 1816 to November 1818. 
At Waterloo, he commanded the 2nd rocket troop, which was equipped with both 
guns and rockets, and in addition to having three horses shot under him, was 
struck by a round shot on the leg and severely wounded in the left arm at the 
close of the day, by a rifleman who had crept up quite close in the high standing 
corn. The troop which was in Picton’s division, and in position on the ridge to 
the left of the road leading down to the farm of La Haye Sainte, had three of four 
officers severely wounded—Captains Whinyates and Dansey, and Lieut. Strangways 
(the fourth, Lieut. Wright, being struck by a musket ball), and 32 non-commissioned 
officers and men, with 49 troop horses killed and wounded. It fired the following 
ammunition:— 
Solid shot 309, spherical case 236, common case 15; total 560, rockets 62; 
For his services at Waterloo, Captain Whinyates was awarded a brevet majority, 
the medal for that action, and a permanent pension for wounds, and for the 
Peninsula the silver medal with clasps for Busaco and Albuera. He subsequently 
obtained a troop at the express desire of Lord Hill, in whose corps he had served, 
and joined Lord Lynedock in the Netherlands. His troop being reduced in 1816, 
he was appointed to a troop of drivers in the Army of Occupation, and losing it by 
reduction in that corps in 1818, was re-appointed to the first vacant troop of 
Horse Artillery by the Duke of Wellington. 
This account of his war services cannot be more appropriately terminated, than 
by giving an extract from a letter written to him by Major-General Long on the 
17th April 1816 
tc I know of no officer who served under my command in the Peninsula war, 
or even in the corps commanded by the present Lord Hill, who has 
stronger claims upon my sense of justice, gallantry, and merit, than 
yourself. 
“ I do, therefore, most unequivocally and conscientiously declare, that, during 
the whole and very considerable period of time that the troop of horse 
artillery commanded by the late Captain Lefebure and yourself acted 
under my orders and personal observation, I never witnessed more 
exemplary conduct in quarters, nor more distinguished zeal and gallantry 
in the field, than were uniformly shewn, and in several very trying 
