# List of British general officers killed in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars

This is a list of general officers of the British Armed Forces who were killed or died while on active service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. This comprises the period of 1793–1815, and includes British general officers who were serving in the British Army or attached to the allied Portuguese Army. Officers of the rank of colonel are included if they were acting in the position of a general officer, that being a brigade or larger, at the time of their death, despite them not themselves being general officers. Officers are also included if they had recently left a command at the time of their death, and their active service was the cause of it.

## Background

The death and injury rate of senior officers fighting in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars was unusually high. General officers of the period regularly demonstrated their courage and served to the forefront in battles, placing themselves in positions of high jeopardy. Sanitary and living conditions on military campaigns in the period were also poor, leading to a number of general officers succumbing to illness and disease while on service.
The historian Rory Muir contrasts this style of service for British general officers with that of their successors fighting in the First World War, saying that the added risks officers of the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars put themselves in meant that their troops "never felt the alienation from their senior officers which developed during the First World War". The highest rate of death among general officers occurred during the Peninsular War, where fifteen per cent who served were killed, having a sixty per cent higher chance of dying than their junior officers.

## Generals

| Image | Name | Branch | Date of death | Cause of death | Location | Command | References |
| | William Grinfield | British Army | 19 October 1803 | Yellow fever | Barbados, West Indies | Windward and Leedward Islands | |

## Lieutenant-Generals

| Name | Branch | Date of death | Cause of death | Location | Command |
| Sir John Vaughan | British Army | 30 June 1795 | Bowel complaint, possibly poison | Martinique, West Indies | Windward Islands |
| Sir Ralph Abercromby | British Army | 28 March 1801 | Hostile fire (small arms) | Alexandria, Egypt | Egypt Army |
| Sir William Myers | British Army | 29 July 1805 | Illness | Barbados, West Indies | Windward and Leeward Islands |
| Sir John Moore | British Army | 16 January 1809 | Hostile fire (cannonball) | Coruña, Spain | Coruña Army |
| Alexander Mackenzie Fraser | British Army | 13 September 1809 | Illness | Britain (illness caught on active service) | 4th Division, Walcheren campaign |
| Sir Thomas Picton | British Army | 18 June 1815 | Hostile fire (small arms) | Waterloo, Belgium | 5th Division |

## Major-Generals

| Name | Branch | Date of death | Cause of death | Location | Command |
| John Mansel | British Army | 26 April 1794 | Hostile fire (small arms) | Beaumont, France | 2nd Cavalry Brigade, Flanders campaign |
| Thomas Dundas | British Army | 3 June 1794 | Yellow fever | Basseterre, Guadeloupe | Governor of Guadeloupe, West Indies campaign |
| Alexander Stewart | British Army | 16 December 1794 | Illness | Britain (illness caught on active service) | 1st Brigade, Flanders campaign |
| Welbore Ellis Doyle | British Army | 2 January 1798 | Illness | Colombo, Ceylon | Governor of Ceylon |
| William Clephane | British Army | 4 November 1803 | Illness | Grenada, West Indies | Lieutenant-Governor of Grenada |
| Patrick Wauchope | British Army | 31 March 1807 | Hostile fire (small arms) | Rosetta, Egypt | Second-in-command, Alexandria expedition |
| John Randoll Mackenzie | British Army | 28 July 1809 | Hostile fire (small arms) | Talavera, Spain | 3rd Division |
| Coote Manningham | British Army | 26 August 1809 | Fatigue | Britain (fatigue caused on active service) | 3rd Brigade, 1st Division, Coruña campaign |
| Richard Stewart | British Army | 19 October 1810 | Fell off balcony while delirious with eye infection | Lisbon, Portugal | Brigade, 2nd Division |
| Daniel Hoghton | British Army | 16 May 1811 | Hostile fire (small arms) | Albuera, Spain | Brigade, 2nd Division (had replaced Stewart) |
| Henry MacKinnon | British Army | 19 January 1812 | Hostile fire (magazine explosion) | Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain | Brigade, 3rd Division |
| Robert Craufurd | British Army | 24 January 1812 | Hostile fire (small arms) | Ciudad Rodrigo, Spain | Light Division |
| Barnard Foord Bowes | British Army | 23 June 1812 | Hostile fire (small arms) | Salamanca, Spain | Brigade, 6th Division |
| John Le Marchant | British Army | 22 July 1812 | Hostile fire (small arms) | Salamanca, Spain | Brigade, 1st Cavalry Division |
| William Wheatley | British Army | 1 September 1812 | Typhus | San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Spain | Brigade, 1st Division |
| Richard Hulse | British Army | 7 September 1812 | Typhus | Arévalo, Spain | 5th Division |
| Andrew Ross | British Army | 26 September 1812 | Fever | Cartagena, Spain | Cartagena garrison |
| Sir Isaac Brock | British Army | 13 October 1812 | Hostile fire (small arms) | Queenston, Upper Canada | Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada |
| Sir William Erskine | British Army | 13 February 1813 | Suicide by jumping out of a window | Lisbon, Portugal | 2nd Cavalry Division |
| William Frederick Spry | Portuguese Army | 16 January 1814 | Illness | Southampton, Britain (illness caught on active service) | 3rd Portuguese Brigade, 5th Division |
| Eberhardt Otto George von Bock | British Army | 21 January 1814 | Drowned | At sea, off Pleubian, France | Heavy Dragoon Brigade, King's German Legion |
| Arthur Gore | British Army | 8/9 March 1814 | Hostile fire | Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands | Brigade, Bergen op Zoom |
| John Byne Skerrett | British Army | 10 March 1814 | Hostile fire (small arms) | Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands | Brigade, Bergen op Zoom |
| Andrew Hay | British Army | 14 April 1814 | Hostile fire | Bayonne, France | Brigade, 1st Division |
| Robert Ross | British Army | 12 September 1814 | Hostile fire (small arms) | North Point, United States | Brigade, United States |
| Sir Robert Rollo Gillespie | British Army | 31 October 1814 | Hostile fire (small arms) | Kalunga, India | Meerut Division, Bengal Army |
| Sir Samuel Gibbs | British Army | 8 January 1815 | Hostile fire | New Orleans, United States | Second-in-command, New Orleans expedition |
| Sir Edward Pakenham | British Army | 8 January 1815 | Hostile fire (small arms) | New Orleans, United States | New Orleans expedition |
| Sir William Ponsonby | British Army | 18 June 1815 | Hostile fire (small arms) | Waterloo, Belgium | 2nd Cavalry Brigade, Cavalry Corps |

## Brigadier-Generals

| Name | Branch | Date of death | Cause of death | Location | Command |
| Richard Symes | British Army | 19 July 1794 | Hostile fire (small arms) | Saint Kitts, West Indies | Brigade, Invasion of Guadeloupe, West Indies campaign |
| Colin Lindsay | British Army | 22 March 1795 | Suicide by shooting | Grenada, West Indies | Grenada, Fédon's rebellion |
| Stephens Howe | British Army | 20 July 1796 | Yellow fever | Port Royal, Jamaica | |
| John Henry Yorke | British Army | 1 November 1805 | Drowned | At sea, off Brazil | Royal Artillery, Cape of Good Hope expedition |
| Robert Anstruther | British Army | 14 January 1809 | Pneumonia | Coruña, Spain | 1st Brigade, Reserve Division, Coruña campaign |
| Ernst Eberhard Cuno Langwerth von Simmern [de] | British Army | 28 July 1809 | Hostile fire (grapeshot) | Talavera, Spain | 3rd Brigade, 1st Division |
| James Catlin Craufurd | British Army | 25 September 1810 | Malaria | Abrantes, Portugal | Brigade, 2nd Division |
| William Campbell | Portuguese Army | 2 January 1811 | Illness | Trocifal, Lines of Torres Vedras, Portugal | 5th Portuguese Brigade |
| Charles Millar | Portuguese Army | February 1811 | Illness | Portugal | Portuguese Militia |
| George Drummond | British Army | 8 September 1811 | Trench mouth | Fuenteguinaldo, Spain | 2nd Brigade, Light Division |
| Francis Colman | Portuguese Army | 12 December 1811 | Fever | Lisbon, Portugal | 6th Portuguese Brigade, 7th Division |
| Richard Collins | Portuguese Army | 17 February 1813 | Exhaustion | Gouveia, Portugal | 6th Portuguese Brigade, 7th Division |
| William Harvey | Portuguese Army | 10 June 1813 | Illness | At sea, en route to Britain | 9th Portuguese Brigade, 4th Division |

## Colonels

| Name | Branch | Date of death | Cause of death | Location | Command |
| James Wynch | British Army | 6 January 1811 | Dysentery | Lisbon, Portugal | 2nd Brigade, Light Division |
| George Wilson | British Army | 5 January 1813 | Fever | Moraleja, Spain | Brigade, 2nd Division |
| Henry Cadogan | British Army | 21 June 1813 | Hostile fire | Vitoria, Spain | 1st Brigade, 2nd Division |
| Georg Carl August du Plat [de] | British Army | 21 June 1815 | Hostile fire | Waterloo, Belgium | 1st Brigade, King's German Legion, 2nd Division |