Read the bio below and try to give details on henry shrapnel 's: - death place - death date - birth date - name - nationality - image - birth place Bio: major general henry shrapnel -lrb- 3 june 1761 -- 13 march 1842 -rrb- was a british army officer whose name has entered the english language as the inventor of the '' shrapnel shell '' . henry shrapnel was born at midway manor in bradford on avon , wiltshire , england , the ninth child of zachariah shrapnel and his wife lydia . in 1784 , while a lieutenant in the royal artillery , he perfected , with his own resources , an invention of what he called '' spherical case '' ammunition : a hollow cannonball filled with lead shot that burst in mid-air . he successfully demonstrated this in 1787 at gibraltar . he intended the device as an anti-personnel weapon . in 1803 , the british army adopted a similar but elongated explosive shell which immediately acquired the inventor 's name . it has lent the term '' shrapnel '' to fragmentation from artillery shells and fragmentation in general ever since , long after it was replaced by high explosive rounds . until the end of world war i , the shells were still manufactured according to his original principles . shrapnel served in flanders , where he was wounded in 1793 . he was promoted to major on 1 november 1803 after eight years as a captain . after his invention 's success in battle at fort new amsterdam , suriname , on 30 april 1804 , shrapnel was promoted to lieutenant colonel on 20 july 1804 , less than nine months later . in 1814 , the british government recognized shrapnel 's contribution by awarding him # 1200 -lrb- uk # in -rrb- a year for life . bureaucracy however prevented him from receiving the full benefit of this award . he was appointed to the office of colonel-commandant , royal artillery , on 6 march 1827 . he rose to the rank of lieutenant-general on 10 january 1837 . shrapnel lived at peartree house , near peartree green , southampton from about 1835 until his death .
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- death place is southampton- death date is 13 march 1842- birth date is 3 june 1761- name is henry shrapnel- nationality is british- image is henry-shrapnel . jpg- birth place is bradford on avon , wiltshire , england