John Prendergast Walsh (1798–1867) was an Irish born soldier who served in the 95th Regiment as a second-lieutenant during the Battle of Waterloo where he lost a leg.
Philip Walsh (1655-1740) who was the Prebendary of Tipperkevin, Vicar of Blessington, Rector of Ballymore Eustace, County Wicklow and chaplain to Primate Michael Boyle, Archbishop of Armagh.
The musket was standard issue in the British army at that time, but its limited range meant that engagements had to be at close quarters.
At the battle of Waterloo his battalion was positioned with the 52nd and 71st regiments, defending a line adjacent to the Hougoumont Farm.
Captain Logan assumed command of the 2nd Battalion after his senior officers, Colonel Norcott and Major Miller, were both wounded.
[10] In 1840 he was the officiating minister in the Chapel of Ease, Newport in Devon, England, replacing Reverend Henry Gamble who had been unwell for a prolonged period.
[12] At a bankruptcy hearing in June 1847 in the London Insolvent Court, Walsh explained that he had lost several positions in the Church of England due to his army career.
Being a war hero of the Battle of Waterloo there was sympathy for him in the court, and several newspapers thought it shameful that he had been treated in this way.
When they eventually located the new lodging they were invited in but the son remonstrated with them and struck the green-grocer, William Prentice, with a poker.
[16] In 1857 an article was published in the Cheltenham Mercury - Saturday 31 October 1857 - detailing outstanding debts of a gentleman called Rev.
[17] Walsh replied in a letter to the newspaper on 9 November, denying all charges made by the paper and blaming "two or three of the lower order of tradesmen" for the altercation.
[18] Two weeks later a letter written by Thomas Blakeman, the secretary of the London Association for the Protection of Trade, was published.
His attention had been drawn to these earlier correspondence and he wrote that he had been trying to obtain outstanding debts from Rev Walsh for several years on behalf of his members.
He also cited other places where Walsh had lived and where debts were still outstanding; these included Canterbury, Steeple (near Maldon, Essex), Shrewsbury, Oswestry and Wrexham.