We received the following press release.--RL Following the announcement of 'Volume VIII' of A HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR there has been particular interest in this project from those involved with geneological research. We circulated to geneological web sites an announcement about the book, and copy it to you. Did your ancestor fight in the Napoleonic Wars? A new book has just been published which provides biographical information about 3,000 British officers killed and wounded in the Peninsular War (1808-1814). The new book is A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF BRITISH OFFICERS KILLED AND WOUNDED 1808-1814, by John A. Hall (Volume VIII of A HISTORY OF THE PENINSULAR WAR), and is published by Greenhill Books, London. A detailed reference volume of 624 pages, A BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF BRITISH OFFICERS KILLED AND WOUNDED provides a comprehensive biographical dictionary of more than 3,000 officers in British, Portuguese and Spanish service killed or wounded in the seven years of that remarkable campaign. Based on exhaustive research of primary records and archives, this superbly detailed reference book draws on data from service records, official despatches, casualty rolls, medal lists, pension lists, the London Gazette and additional original sources to provide an astonishing insight into the history of the British Army from the point of view of the individual. Entries on this casualty roll include the service histories of individual officers, medals or awards received, the place, date and cause of death or nature of wound, any subsequent career details and additional campaign material. Many entries include eyewitness accounts about the particular officer, taken from memoirs, diaries and despatches of the period. As an example of the content of the volume, the following are the entries under the letter 'A': ABELL, Francis, Lt. 83rd Foot ACKLAND, Dudley, Major, 57th Foot ACKLAND, John, Lt./Capt., 9th Foot ADAIR, Robert, Capt., 1st Foot Guards ADAIR, Walter William, Capt., 88th Foot ADAM, Frederick, Lt.Col., 21st Foot ADAMS, George Herbert, Capt., 66th Foot ADAMS, John, Capt., 5th Foot ADAMSON, Peter, Capt., 71st Foot; Major, 4th Cacadores ADDISON, John, Lt., 6th Foot AGAR, Edward, Ensign/Lt., 47th Foot AGNEW, Matthew, Lt., 52nd Foot AGNEW, Thomas Ramsden, Lt., 82nd Foot AHLERS, George, Cornet, Duke of Brunswick Oels' Corps AICKEN, Francis, Capt., 5th Dragoon Guards AITCHISON, John, Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards ALEXANDER, Henry, Ensign, 28th Foot ALGEO, J. H., Capt., 34th Foot; Major/Lt.Col., 1st Cacadores ALLEN, James, Capt., 23rd Light Dragoons ALLEN, Thomas, Ensign, 1st Line Battn., K.G.L. ALLEY, William Henry, Lt., 4th Foot ALLIX, Charles, Lt. and Capt., 1st Foot Guards ALLIX, William, Lt., 95th Foot ALLMAN, Francis, Capt., 48th Foot ALSTONE, James, Ensign, 1st Foot ALTEN, Victor von, Major-General, 2nd Light Dragoons K.G.L. ALTENSTEIN, Henry von, Ensign, 60th Foot ALVES, John, Lt., 74th Foot ALY, William, Capt., 1st Light Dragoons K.G.L.. AMBROSE, William, Capt., 50th ANDERSON, Alexander, Lt./Capt., 42nd Foot; Major, 11th Portuguese Line Regt. ANDERSON, Alexander, Lt., 45th Foot ANDERSON, Charles, Capt., 94th Foot ANDERSON, Francis, Lt., 23rd Light Dragoons ANDERSON, Henry, Capt., 68th Foot ANDERSON, James, Lt., 71st Foot ANDERSON, John, Lt., 1st Foot ANDERSON, John, Lt., 28th Foot ANDERSON, John, Ensign, 38th Foot ANDERSON, Joseph, Lt., 24th Foot ANDERSON, Matthew, Lt., 52nd Foot ANDERSON, William, Lt., 91st Foot ANDREWS, Alexander, Capt., 60th Foot ANDREWS, Francis, Lt., 45th Foot ANDREWS, Matthias, Lt., 30th Foot ANDREWS, Thomas, Capt., 74th Foot ANGROVE, John, Lt., 43rd Foot ANNESLEY, Marcus, Capt., 61st Foot ANSALDO, John, Lt., 1st Batt. 48th Foot ANSTRUTHER, Windham A., Ensign, Coldstream Guards ANTHONY, James, Lt., 40th Foot ANWYLL, Robert, Capt., 4th Foot APPUHN, George, Lt., 3rd Line Battn. K.G.L. APPUHN, William Joachim Ernst, Lt., 3rd Line Battn. K.G.L. ARBUTHNOT, Hon. Duncan, Lt., 95th Foot ARBUTHNOT, Thomas, Major, 5th West India Regt. ARCHDALL, Henry, Capt., 68th Foot ARCHER, Holt, Lt., 7th Foot ARDEN, Henry, Lt., 61st Foot ARGENT, Matthew, Lt., 44th Foot ARGUIMBAU, Lawrence, Lt./Capt., 1st Foot ARMIT, John, Ensign, 27th Foot ARMSTRONG, Francis W., Ensign/Lt., 48th Foot ARMSTRONG, Frederick, Capt., 4th Cacadores ARMSTRONG, George, Capt., 50th Foot ARMSTRONG, John, Lt., 1st Foot ARMSTRONG, John, Lt., 88th Foot ARMSTRONG, Richard, Capt., 97th Foot; Lt. Col, 10th Cacadores ARNOLD, Robert, Ensign, 4th Foot ARNOT, Lawrence, Capt., 56th Foot; Capt., 92nd Foot; Major, 12th Portuguese Line ASHE, Richard, Ensign, 71st Foot ASHWORTH, Charles, Lt.Col., E.O.P.S.; Brigadier-General, Portuguese Staff ATKIN, William, Lt., 2nd Light Battn. K.G.L. ATKINS, Thomas, Lt., 45th Foot ATKINSON, Abraham, Ensign/Lt., 74th Foot AUBIN, Philip, Lt., 57th Foot AVEMANN, Charles Christian Frederick von, Capt., 1st Line Battn. K.G.L. AYLING, John, Lt., 40th Foot AYSHFORD, Aaron Moore, Ensign, 5th Foot THE BIOGRAPHICAL DICTIONARY OF BRTITISH OFFICERS KILLED AND WOUNDED by John A. Hall is 222 x 141mm (8.75 x 5.5in), has 624 pages, and is priced at £ 35.00. Greenhill Books/Lionel Leventhal Limited Park House 1 Russell Gardens London NW11 9NN Tel: 0181 458 6314 Fax: 0181 905 5245 E-mail: LionelLeventhal@compuserve.com Web site: www.greenhillbooks.com Distributed in the United States (at $59.95) by: Stackpole Books 5067 Ritter Road Mechanicsburg PA 17055 Tel: 717 796 0411 Fax: 717 796 0412 E-mail: sales@stackpolebooks.com Back to 4th Quarter 98 List of News Items Back to Master List of News Items Back to Master Magazine List © Copyright 1998 by Coalition Web, Inc. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com