Allegiance United Kingdom Rank Lieutenant colonel | Service/branch British Army | |
Born 1776 ( 1776 ) Battles/wars Napoleonic Wars
Walcheren Campaign
Peninsular War
Battle of Salamanca
Battle of Vitoria
Battle of the Pyrenees
Battle of Nivelle
Battle of Orthez
Waterloo Campaign
Waterloo Died 18 June 1815, Waterloo, Belgium Battles and wars Napoleonic Wars, Walcheren Campaign | ||
Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Francis D'Oyly KCB (1776 – 18 June 1815) was a British Army officer. He was the third son of Matthias and Mary D'Oyly.
Commissioned into the 1st Regiment of Guards, D'Oyly served with them during the 1799 Anglo-Russian expedition to the Netherlands in 1799. He returned to the Netherlands in the Walcheren Campaign of 1809. On 2 July 1811, both he and his brother Henry were promoted from captains to majors in the army. On 6 October 1812, he was given command of a company in the Guards as a brevet major after the death of Lt-Col. Colquitt. He then served under the Duke of Wellington in the British Army's campaign in the Spanish Peninsula and France, after which he was made a KCB. He again served under Wellington during the Hundred Days and was killed at the battle of Waterloo.