Letters Received
letterbook, letterbook
Accession Number

NAM.1968-07-491-1

Description

Cloth bound manuscript letterbook of Major William Burton Tylden commanding the Pontoon Train in France, 15 Jan to 30 Dec 1816. Front cover titled: Letters Received. Letters received by Maj William Burton Tylden covering his career with the Royal Engineers and Royal Artillery Drivers, including administrative matters, discipline, responses to orders, vacancies, equipment, lodging, relationship with the local community in Raismes. Mentions drivers transferred from the Artillery to the Engineers department attached to Pontoon Trains. Associated with the Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (1815).

Campaigns

Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (1815)