Joseph Walton (British Army officer) explained

Joseph Walton
Death Date:1808
Allegiance: United Kingdom
Branch: British Army
Rank:Major-General
Battles:American Revolutionary War

Major-General Joseph Walton (died 1808) was Master Gunner, St James's Park, the most senior ceremonial position in the Royal Artillery after the Sovereign.

Military career

Walton was commissioned into the Royal Artillery and was sent to North America where he was serving under General Thomas Gage in 1764.[1]

He held the position of Master Gunner, St James's Park from 1783[2] and of Colonel of the Invalid Battalion from 1793. He was promoted to Major-General in 1802 and died in 1808.[3]

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=SEmo-gwbLwMC&pg=PA215 Pursuit of profit and preferment in colonial North America: John Bradstreet's Quest By William G. Godfrey, Page 215
  2. Web site: Royal Artillery at Regiments.org . 2010-10-31 . bot: unknown . https://web.archive.org/web/20080112133926/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/art-eng-sig/RA.htm . 12 January 2008 .
  3. https://books.google.com/books?id=wrk7AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Sir+John+MacLeod%22 Military Memoir of Lieutenant General Sir John Macleod, Page 19