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+ | ====== William Uphill ====== | ||
+ | **1782-1825**\\ | ||
+ | //([[Uphill Thomas|Thomas]])// | ||
+ | [[http:// | ||
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+ | William UPHILL was born 28 Apr 1782 and baptised 26 May 1782, [[https:// | ||
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+ | He enlisted as a private (Drummer) in the [[http:// | ||
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+ | He was stationed at [[wp> | ||
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+ | I have been unable to determine if William participated in any of the 1st Battalion' | ||
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+ | It does, however, seem that he served with the 1st Battalion from the end of 1813 (probably joining a bit too late for the [[wp> | ||
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+ | His regiment was in Croix, France, 24 Jun 1817, when he was discharged from service suffering with asthma; and he was admitted, aged 35, to the Royal Hospital Chelsea 25th June 1817: | ||
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+ | At the time of his third son's baptism in 1818, he is a shoemaker in Newington. | ||
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+ | He died aged 43, 20 May 1825, and was buried 27 May 1825 Kennington Lane, Upper, Vauxhall Chapel, London.\\ | ||
+ | Denomination: | ||
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+ | ===== Marriage & Children ===== | ||
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+ | He married [[Cole Elizabeth 1781|Elizabeth COLE]] 10 Aug 1809, [[wp> | ||
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+ | At the time of marriage, William is described as a " | ||
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+ | === Children of William Uphill and Elizabeth: | ||
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+ | - [[Uphill Henry William 1810|Henry William UPHILL]], baptised 3 Jun 1810 - Brixham, Devon | ||
+ | - [[Uphill Arthur Wellington Mestayre|Arthur Wellington Mestayre UPHILL]], baptised 3 Oct 1813 - Reading, Berkshire | ||
+ | - [[Uphill William Arthur 1818|William Arthur UPHILL]], baptised 4 Oct 1818 - Newington, London >> | ||
+ | - [[Uphill Elizabeth Sophia Ann 1821|Elizabeth Sophia Ann UPHILL]], baptised 6 May 1821 - Newington, London | ||
+ | - [[Uphill Ann Cole|Ann Cole UPHILL]], baptised 18 May 1823 - Lambeth, London | ||
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+ | ---- | ||
+ | ===== Military Service ===== | ||
+ | Referencing the information from [[http:// | ||
+ | === Stations and Combats – 1st/2nd Battalions === | ||
+ | 2nd Batt. 1803: 21 July – formed at Portsmouth\\ | ||
+ | **//Enlists 21 Nov 1803// | ||
+ | 2nd Batt. 1804: May – Jersey; October – Horsham; Hilsea; November – Guernsey; December – Alderney\\ | ||
+ | 2nd Batt. 1805: Alderney\\ | ||
+ | 2nd Batt. 1806: January – Guernsey\\ | ||
+ | 2nd Batt. 1807: Guernsey; February – Portsmouth; Broomgrove; September – received draft of recruits from Tower Hamlets Militia; October - Plymouth\\ | ||
+ | 2nd Batt. 1808: Plymouth\\ | ||
+ | **//Marries Elizabeth COLE 10 Aug 1809, Stoke Damerel, Devon// | ||
+ | 2nd Batt. 1809: Plymouth; September – Berryhead; October - sent draft to 1st Battalion\\ | ||
+ | 2nd Batt. 1810: Berryhead\\ | ||
+ | **//Son Henry William UPHILL baptised 3 Jun 1810, Brixham, Devon// | ||
+ | 2nd Batt. 1811: Berryhead; May – received draft of recruits from Royal Monmouth Militia; July – sent draft of 300 men to 1st Battalion\\ | ||
+ | 2nd Batt. 1812: Recruited back up the strength; November - sent draft to 1st Battalion\\ | ||
+ | 2nd Batt. 1813: Reading; September – sent draft to 1st Battalion\\ | ||
+ | **//Son Arthur Wellington Mestayre UPHILL, baptised 3 Oct 1813, Reading, Berkshire// | ||
+ | 1st Batt. // | ||
+ | 1st Batt. 1814: St. Palais; ORTHEZ; Aire; TOULOUSE; May – to Lower Canada; August – Quebec; Plattsburg\\ | ||
+ | 1st Batt. 1815: Quebec; June – to England; July – Portsmouth; Ostend; Paris; Army of Occupation.\\ | ||
+ | 1st Batt. 1816-18: part of the Army of Occupation of France\\ | ||
+ | **// | ||
+ | \\ | ||
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+ | ===== Historical Notes: ===== | ||
+ | ==== The Buffs ==== | ||
+ | {{ :: | ||
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+ | Cannon, Richard **" | ||
+ | 1839, pp. 234-238\\ | ||
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+ | Digital copy available at [[https:// | ||
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+ | [1813]\\ | ||
+ | The regiment encamped in the mountains in the Roncesvalles' | ||
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+ | After this brilliant exploit the army went into cantonments between the Nivelle and the sea, and the BUFFS were quartered at Cambo, a town situate behind the river Nive. Further operations were retarded for a short time by the snow and rain; but the weather having improved, the army crossed the //Nive// on the 9th of December, and drove the French into an entrenched camp in front of Bayonne. The enemy, however, issued from this post on the three succeeding days, and attacked various parts of the position occupied by the allies; on the last day the BUFFS particularly distinguished themselves, - having, together with the other regiments of the brigade, carried, in superior style, a hill on the French left which covered their manoeuvres, and captured two guns; and this height was successfully maintained against all the efforts of the enemy to retake it. The loss of the regiment was three men killed, with Captains Thorn, Cameron, and Hamilton, Lieutenants Wright, Fielding, Houghton, Gillman, Woods, Home, Twigg, Murphy, and Blake, and Ensign Everdern, four serjeants, and sixty-nine private men wounded; and the excellent conduct of the officers and men was rewarded with the royal permission to bear the word " | ||
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+ | 1814\\ | ||
+ | The regiment was afterwards stationed for some time at Vieux Mogure, between the rivers Nive and Ardour; and the further operations were suspended by severe weather. The army was, however, in motion in the middle of February, 1814, and the BUFFS were engaged in the operations, by which a body of French troops were driven from the vicinity of //St. Palais//; and on the 18th of the same month posts were established on the Gave d' | ||
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+ | Again advancing up the country on the 24th of February the BUFFS passed the Gave d' | ||
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+ | The regiment also formed part of the force under Lieut.General Sir Rowland Hill, which proceeded on the 2nd of March along the left bank of the Adour to //Aire//, and drove, with great bravery, the French troops from the vicinity of that town; on which occasion it had two men killed, and Lieutenant Woods, one serjeant, and nine men wounded.\\ | ||
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+ | After a series of advances and manoeuvres, in which the BUFFS took part, the French army, under Marshal Soult, was assembled in position at // | ||
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+ | [ ... ]\\ | ||
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+ | The first battalion of the BUFFS was soon afterwards ordered to a new scene of conflict. During the progress of the war in which this battalion had taken so splendid a part, Bonaparte attempted to ruin the commerce of Great Britain by prohibiting the reception of British goods by neutral nations; this gave rise to an order in council, which was issued by the British government to counteract the decrees of Bonaparte; the United States of America were afterwards induced, by French interest, to resist this order in council, and ultimately to declare war against Great Britain; and, after hostilities had ceased on the continent of Europe, the BUFFS, with several other corps, were ordered to proceed to America. The regiment accordingly marched to the coat, and having embarked at Pouillac, near Bourdeaux, on the 31st of May, arrived, after a passage of two months, in the river St. Lawrence, and landed about a hundred miles above Quebec, in Lower Canada; being formed in brigade with the fifth, twenty-seventh, | ||
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+ | ==== Pages from The London Gazette ==== | ||
+ | [[https:// | ||
+ | THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1813.\\ | ||
+ | WAR DEPARTMENT.\\ | ||
+ | Downing-Street, | ||
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+ | THE Marquess of Worcester has arrived with a dispatch, of which the following is a copy, addressed to the Earl Bathurst by the Marquess of | ||
+ | Wellington dated\\ | ||
+ | //St. Pé, November// 13, 1813.\\ | ||
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+ | MY LORD, | ||
+ | THE enemy have, since the beginning of August, occupied a position with their right upon the sea, in front of St. Jean de Luz, and on the left of the Nivelle, their centre on La Petite La Rhune in Sarré, and on the heights behind the village, and their left, consisting of two divisions of infantry, under the Comte D' | ||
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+ | The enemy, not satisfied with the natural strength of this position, had the whole of it fortified, and their right, in particular, had been made so strong, that I did not deem it expedient to attack it in front.\\ | ||
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+ | Pamplona having surrendered on the 31st of October, and the right of the army having been disengaged from covering the blockade of that place, I moved Lieutenant General Sir Rowland Hill, on the 6th and 7th, into the valley of Bastan, as soon as the state of the roads, after the recent rains, would permit, intending to attack the enemy on the 8th instant; but the rain which fell on the 7th instant having again rendered the roads impracticable, | ||
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+ | The object of the attack being to force the enemy' | ||
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+ | Marshal Sir William Beresford directed the movements of the right of the centre, consisting of the 3d division under Major-General the Honourable Charles Colville, the 7th division under Mariscal de Campo Le Cor, and the 4th division under Lieutenan-General the Honourable Sir Lowry Cole. The latter attacked the redoubts in front of Sarré, that village and the heights behind it, supported on their left by the army of reserve of Andalusia, under the command of the Mariscal de Campo Don Pedro Girou, which attacked the enemy' | ||
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+ | General Alten' | ||
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+ | Lieutenant-General Don Manuel Freyse moved in two columns, from the heights of Man dale towards Ascain, in order to take advantage of any movements the enemy might make from the right of his position towards his centre; and Lieutenant-General Sir John Hope, with the left of the army, drove in the enemy' | ||
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+ | The attack began at daylight, and Lieutenant-General the Honourable Sir Lowry Cole having obliged the enemy to evacuate the redoubt on their right, in front of Sarré, by a cannonade, and that in front of the left of the village having been likewise evacuated on the approach of the 7th division, under General Le Cor, to attack it, Lieutenant-General Sir Lowry Cole attacked and possessed himself of the village, which was turned, on its left, by the 3d division; under Major-General the Honourable Charles Colville, and on its right by the reserve of Andalusia, under Don Pedro Girou, and Major-General Charles Baron Alten carried the positions on La Petite La Rhune.\\ | ||
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+ | The whole then co-operated in the attack of the enemy' | ||
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+ | While these operations were going on in the centre, I had the pleasure of seeing the 6th division under Lieutenant-General Sir Henry Clinton, after having crossed the Nivelle, and having driven in the enemy' | ||
+ | following them towards Itzatee. The troops on the heights behind Anhoue were, by these operations, under the direction of Lieutenant-General Sir | ||
+ | Rowland Hill, forced to retire towards the bridge of Cambo, on the Nive; with the exception of the division in Mondarin, which by the march of a part of the 2d division, under Lieutenant-General the Honourable Sir William Stewart, was pushed into the mountains towards Baygory.\\ | ||
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+ | As soon as the heights were carried on both banks of the Nivelle, I directed the 3d and 7th divisions, being the right of our centre, to move by the left of that river upon St. Pé, and the 6th division by the right of that river, on the same place, while the 4th and light divisions and General Girou' | ||
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+ | We were thus established in the rear of the enemy' | ||
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+ | The enemy evacuated Ascain in the afternoon, of which village Lieutenant-General Don Manuel Freyre took possession; and quitted all their works and positions in front of St. Jean de Luz during the night, and retired upon Bidart, destroying all the bridges on the Lowa Nivelle. Lieutenant-General the Honourable Sir John Hope followed them with the left of the army, as soon as he could cross the river; and Marshal Sir William Beresford moved the centre of the army as far as the state of the roads after a violent fall of rain would allow; and the enemy retired again on the night of the llth, into an entrenched camp in front of Bayonne.\\ | ||
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+ | In the course of the operations of which I have given your Lordship an outline, in which we have driven the enemy from positions which they had been fortifying with great labour and care for three months, in which we have taken fifty-one pieces of cannon, six tumbrils of ammunition, and fourteen hundred prisoners, I have great satisfaction in reporting the good conduct of all the officers and troops. The report itself will show how much reason I had to be satisfied with the conduct of Marshal Sir William Beresford, and of Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill, who directed the attack of the centre and right of the army; and with that of Lieutenant-Generals the Honourable Sir G. L. Cole, the Honourable Sir William Stewart, Sir John Hamilton, and Sir Henry Clinton; and Major General the Honourable C. Colville, Charles Baron Alten, Mariscal de Campo P. Le Cor, and Mariscal De Campo Don Pablo Morillo, commanding divisions of infantry; and with that of Don Pedro Girou, commanding the reserve of Andalusia.\\ | ||
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+ | Lieutenant-General Sir Rowland Hill, and Marshal Sir William Beresford, and these general officers have reported their sense of the conduct of the Generals and troops under their command, respectively; | ||
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+ | Although the most brilliant part of this service did not fall to the lot of Lieut. Gen. the Hon. Sir J. Hope, and Lieutenant-General Don. M. Frere, I lave every reason to be satisfied with the mode in which these General Officers conducted the service of which they had the direction.\\ | ||
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+ | Our loss, although severe, has not been so great as might have been expected, considering the strength of the positions attacked, and the length of time (from daylight till dark) during which the troops were engaged : but 1 am concerned to add, that Colonel Barnard, of the 95th, has been severely, though I hope not, dangerously wounded; and that we have lost in Lieutenant-Colonel Lloyd, of the 94th, an officer who had frequently distinguished himself, and was of great promise.\\ | ||
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+ | I received the greatest assistance in forming the plan for this attack, and throughout the operations, from the Quarter-Master General Sir George Murray, and the Adjutant-General the Hon. Sir Edward Pakenham, and from Lieutcnaut-CoJonel Lord Fitzroy Sommerset, Lieut.-Colonel Campbell, and all the Officers of my personal Staff, and His Serene Highness the Prince of Orange.\\ | ||
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+ | The artillery which was in the field was of great use to us; and I cannot sufficiently acknowledge the intelligence and activity with which it was brought to the point of attack, under the direction of Colonel Dickson, over the bad roads through the mountains, at this season of the year.\\ | ||
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+ | I send this dispatch by my Aide-de-Camp, | ||
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+ | I have, & | ||
+ | (Signed) WELLINGTON\\ | ||
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+ | [[https:// | ||
+ | SATURDAY, NOVEMBER | ||
+ | COLONIAL DEPARTMENT.\\ | ||
+ | Downing-Street, | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | DISPATCHES, of which the folloing are copies and extracts, were this day received from Lieutenant-General Sir George Prevost, Bart. addressed to Earl Bathurst, one of His Majesty' | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | RETURN inclosed in a dispatch addressed to Earl Bathurst by Lieutenant-General Sir G. Prevost, dated head-quarters Plattsburg, State of New York, 11th September 1814.\\ | ||
+ | \\ | ||
+ | //Return of Killed, Wounded, and Missing of the Left Division, under the Command of Major-General de Rottenburg, in Action with the Enemy, from the 6th to the 14th Septemer 1814, inclusive.// | ||
+ | ...\\ | ||
+ | //Names of Officers.// | ||
+ | // | ||
+ | 3d Foot - Captain (Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel) James Willington, Ensign John Chapman; | ||
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+ | // | ||
+ | 3d Foot - Lieutenant R. Kingsbury, severely (since dead;) Lieutenant John West, severely; Lieutenants G. Benson and John Home, slightly...\\ | ||
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