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WRITTEN BY 
LIEUL-GENERAL THOMAS DYNELEY, (.B, R.A. 
WHILE ON ACTIVE SERVICE 
BETWEEN THE YEARS 1806 AND 1815, 
ARRANGED BY 
COLONEL F. A. WHINYATHES, late R.H.A. 
Dvrine the preparation of the Swabey Diary there were brought to the 
notice of the editor a number of letters written to members of his 
family, and to an intimate friend, by the late Lt.-General Dyneley, C.B., 
during his active service between the years 1806 and 1815. It is to be 
regretted that some of the series are missing, but those which remain 
and are now published are of such interest and so entertaining that 
no- apology is needed for their production. A few words about the 
writer of the letters by way of introducing him to the reader may not 
be out of place. 
Thomas Dyneley (one of a family of fifteen) was the fourth son of 
Robert Dyneley of Bramhope, Yorkshire, Esquire. He was born on 
November 23rd, 1782, and as a 2nd Lieutenant entered the Royal 
Artillery, December Ist, 1801. He was in Italy with Sir James 
Craig’s force in 1805, and the following year volunteered to accom- 
pany the expedition under Sir John Stuart to Calabria, where he was 
present at the battle of Maida and siege of the castle of Scylla. 
In 1811, he embarked for the Peninsula with ‘Hi’ troop, R.H.A.,as 2nd 
Captain. There he served at the sieges of Ciudad Rodrigo (wounded) and 
Burgos, at the battles of Salamanca, Vitoria and those in the Pyrenees, 
besides other minor engagements, being also wounded in the attack on 
the forts of Salamanca. In November 1818 he was invalided home 
and did not rejoin his troop till its return to England in 1814. He re- 
ceived the Peninsular medal and five clasps. ‘The following year he 
accompanied ‘H’ troop to Belgium and was in the retreat from Quatre 
Bras and at the battle of Waterloo, for which he received the medal 
and a brevet majority, and in 1838, the C.B. He was made A.-D.-C. 
to the Queen in 1841. j 
He commanded ‘ Hi’ troop from 1825 to 1834. Subsequently he was 
in command of the Royal Artillery in Canada from 1847 to 1852, and 
in Dublin from the latter date until his promotion to Major-General in 
1854. Lieutenant-General Dyneley, who died in London in June 
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