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Surname: Waddy
First Name: Colonel Richard
Ship: Himalaya 1869
Date: March 1869
Place: -
Source: John Lee and Co Almanac for 1885, West Maitland, National Library Australia
Details: The last of the red coats, or regular soldiers of Old England, left our shores in March per s. s. Himalaya. They formed a portion of the 50th (Queens Own) Regiment and were under the command of Colonel (afterwards General) Sir Richard Waddy K. C. B. The latter was a splended specimen of a true gentlemanly, brave English officer; and prior to his death in 1881 no honour or mark of distinction that his Sovereign could give him was withheld. He was father of Percy Waddy, Esq., of West Maitland and Richard Waddy Esq., of Morpeth
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Surname: Waddy
First Name: Lieutenant Richard
Ship: Hive 1834
Date: 1835 11 December
Place: Maitland
Source: Australian
Details: Of 50 Regiment. Said to be the successor of Lieut. Steele of the 17th Regiment in the Mounted Police at Maitland
214126
Surname: Waddy
First Name: Lieutenant-General Richard KCB
Ship: -
Date: 8 August 1877
Place: -
Source: The Singleton Argus and Upper Hunter General Advocate
Details: Lieut-General Sir Richard Waddy, K.C.B. THE name of this distinguished officer having through his recent appointment as K.C.B been brought once again before the public the fact of long residence in Sydney, and service in New South Wales generally, will render a few particulars of his military career interesting. His first connection with the colony dates as far back as 1834. when as ensign in the 5Oth Regiment (Queen s Own), he landed in Port Jackson. The state of social affairs not being in those days as now, the superintendence of police- matters was vested in military hands, and, later on Mr. Waddy was appointed to take charge off the mounted troopers in the Goul- burn district. After holding this appointment for four years, up to the year, 1841, his regiment was ordered to India, and soon afterwards embarked. Unluckily, however, the transport conveying them was wrecked while passing through Torres Straits, but being picked up by two passing vessels, they were by them taken on to Madras. Landing there and proceeding to Calcutta, his captaincy was soon afterwards gazetted, and, still in command of his old regiment, the 50th (which he adhered to all along), he was present at the battle of Punniar, and received the medal. Later on, throughout the desultory Crimean War, Captain Waddy appears to have served with much success, having entered the struggle as a captain and found himself colonel at its close. At the head of the 5Oth Regiment he was present at, and took part in, the battles of Alma (where he was wounded), Inkerman, and the siege of Sebastopol, Lord Raglan, in his depatches making particular mention of the services rendered by him when in command of the historical trenches, where so many thousand were slain; and particularly on an occasion when the Russians made a sortie in force. Whilst serving in the trenches on the 13th October 1854, he was again wounded and afterwards received a medal with three clasps, and the rank of CB. Amongst his other rewards at this time were those of the Legion of Honour, the Sardinian and Turkish medals, and the 4th class Medjidee. At the close of the Crimean war, having returned to London, Colonel Waddy was ordered to Ceylon, whence he and his old regiment were despatched to New Zealand in I863. Remaining there for several years, he served through the New Zealand war of 1864-5, acting as Colonel on the Staff until January, 1875 and as Brigadier-General from that date up to March 1866. He commanded the entire force in front of the Paterangi Paia, and engaged in a sharp skirmish with the rebels at Waiari in February 1864, receiving in acknowledgment the New Zealand medals. He was also chief in command of the Field Force under Sir Duncan Cameron, in the action at Nukwmaree on the 25th June, 1865. From New Zealand he, for the second time landed in Sydney, where, in 1868, his appointment as Major-General in the army followed. On receipt of this last rank Major-General Waddy left New South Wales with his old regiment in the troop-ship Himalya, in 1869, and has remained at home ever since, being raised to a Lieu- tenant-Generalship in 1876. Since 1868 he has not been in active service, and has resided in Kingstown, Ireland. On 27th of June the title of K.C.B for distinguished military service was added to his list of honours, knighthood, of course, being included. One rather remarkable incident in General Waddy s career is that out of the whole 50th Regiment, with which he left England, he was, on its return home in 1869, the only one of the original men which com- prised it - officers and privates alike having either been killed, died, or been transferred to other regiments. Another strange incident was his remarkable escape from death at the memorable battle of the Alma in 1853. At that great struggle, in which it is computed that about three thousand four hundred English and French, and upwards of four thousand Russians were slain, Colonel Waddy was struck on the shoulder by a bullet which completely tore away one of his epaulettes, grazed his arm, and, running upwards, entered his mouth, but fortunately did no further harm than shattering some of his teeth and slightly crazing his upper lip. In an old journal we read that on one occasion a review of the Wexford Militia was held in honor of Colonel Waddy s visit home to Wexford ... a special request was made that at a ball which followed later on, the gallant Colonel should consent to appear in the original coat, minus its one adornment. General Waddy was decorated with the Victoria Cross for bravery at Alma, and has in addition, eight other medals. Mr. Percy Waddy, manager of the Commercial Bank in Singleton, is the General s fourth, and second surviving son.
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Surname: Waddy
First Name: Richard
Ship: -
Date: 20 January 1840
Place: Liverpool
Source: Asiatic Journal
Details: Marriage of Richard Waddy Esq., 50th regiment to Ann Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late William Cordeaux Esq., of Leppington