missing co.s of bns of 95th at Waterloo/Bn organization
Posted: Mon Jun 09, 2008 7:00 pm
Hello,
I'm new to this forum, I was wondering if anyone knows where the missing companies of the 1/95 and 2/95 Rifles were during Waterloo? The order of battle lists both as having 6 companies present where were the other 4 for each? I've found the distribution of the 3/95 Rifles during June 1815 but not the others.
I had purchased the Osprey book on British Rifleman in the Napoleonic Wars hoping that it would include a section on the battalion organization but it didn't. Does anyone know the composition of the battalion staff and within each company, the number of officers, NCOs, CPLs, Buglers and riflemen - and anyone else I may have left out?
I presume that the battalions of the 95th did not carry colors into battle but they must have had them. Were these left in England, perhaps Shorncliffe?
thanks,
Jeff
I'm new to this forum, I was wondering if anyone knows where the missing companies of the 1/95 and 2/95 Rifles were during Waterloo? The order of battle lists both as having 6 companies present where were the other 4 for each? I've found the distribution of the 3/95 Rifles during June 1815 but not the others.
I had purchased the Osprey book on British Rifleman in the Napoleonic Wars hoping that it would include a section on the battalion organization but it didn't. Does anyone know the composition of the battalion staff and within each company, the number of officers, NCOs, CPLs, Buglers and riflemen - and anyone else I may have left out?
I presume that the battalions of the 95th did not carry colors into battle but they must have had them. Were these left in England, perhaps Shorncliffe?
thanks,
Jeff