 Abt 1775 - 1810 (~ 35 years)
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| Name |
Silver, John Thomas |
| Born |
Abt 1775 |
Of Hampshire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
27 Sep 1810 |
Busaco, Portugal |
| Person ID |
I00624 |
My Genealogy |
| Last Modified |
14 Jun 2015 |
| Father |
Silver, John Nicholas, b. Abt 1746, Of Winchester, Hampshire, England , d. 23 Jan 1837, Of Winchester, Hampshire, England (Age ~ 91 years) |
| Mother |
Humphreys, Frances, b. Abt 1750, Of Devizes, Wiltshire, England , bur. 28 Apr 1824, St Maurice, Winchester, Hampshire, England (Age ~ 74 years) |
| Married |
08 Aug 1774 |
St John the Baptist, Devizes, Wiltshire, England |
| Family ID |
F00294 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Catherine |
| Married |
Abt 1805 |
England |
| Children |
| | 1. Silver, John, c. 13 Jul 1806, Saint Maurice, Winchester, Hampshire, England , bur. 20 Sep 1812, Lyme Regis, Dorset, England (Age ~ 6 years) |
| | 2. Silver, Thomas Goldie, b. 1807, Saint Maurice, Winchester, Hampshire, England , d. 29 Sep 1844 (Age 37 years) |
| | 3. Silver, Frances, c. 22 Feb 1809, St Maurice, Winchester, Hampshire, England |
| | 4. Silver, Francis Richmond Webb, c. 08 Sept 1810, Saint Maurice, Winchester, Hampshire, England |
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| Family ID |
F00296 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- WINCHESTER, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 1812
On the 20th ult. died, at Lyme Regis, Dorset, at the early age of 6 years, the eldest son of the late Major John Silver, of the 88th regiment of Foot, who fell at the battle of Busaco.
Major John Silver', 88th Foot, wounded at Busaco, 27 September 1810. Died of wounds.
Notes on Welington's Peninsular Regisments...
27th September 1810 (on the ridge at Busaco)
PUA 719
On the day of battle on the Busaco ridge Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Wallace has his men drawn up looking down .....aware that the enemy is below them in large numbers but that the terrain will restrict them to a narrow corridor of attack when they inevitably will emerge... With fragments of other Light companies and a body of Portuguese Line troops all joining in and even a couple of artillery pieces for good measure the outcome of the charge was never in doubt, down went the enemy almost to the bottom of the hills where only their own cannon-fire brought the pursuit to an end. Although it may sound on the surface that this fight had been one-sided that cannot have been the case, certainly not for 1/88th and their comrades of 1/45th, Lieutenant Henry Johnson had been killed as had 30 of the men, Major John Silver and Ensign Thomas Leonard had been mortally wounded and Major Robert McGregor, Captains George Bury, George Dansey, Henry McDermott, Lieutenants John Fitzpatrick, William Nickle and 94 of the men injured with one more not to be found as all settled back to hold their original positions....
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