Samuel Ferrior

Samuel Ferrior (1772 – 18 June 1815) was a British soldier killed at the Battle of Waterloo on 18 June 1815.

Career

Born in Pembrokeshire, he was promoted to Captain in the 1st Life Guards on 1 August 1802.[1] On 30 June 1810 he was promoted from captain to major by purchase[2] and subsequently to lieutenant-colonel.

At the Battle of Waterloo, the 1st Life Guards formed part of the 1st (or household) brigade of heavy cavalry under Major-General Lord Edward Somerset.[3]

Records suggest that during the battle, as major and Lieutenant-colonel he led his regiment in eleven charges, most of which were not made until after "his head had been laid open by the cut of a sabre and his body was pierced with a lance".[4]

References
  1. "British Cavalry Regiments and the Men Who Led Them 1793-1815: 1st Regiment of Life Guards". Retrieved 2 October 2015.
  2. The London Gazette. T. Neuman. 1810. p. 936.
  3. Siborne, William (1845). History of the War in France and Belgium, in 1815: Containing Minute Details of the Battles of Quatre-Bras, Ligny, Wavre, and Waterloo. Lea & Blanchard. p. 180.
  4. Dalton, Charles (1904). The Waterloo roll call. With biographical notes and anecdotes. London: Eyre and Spottiswoode. p. 47.
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