William Havelock KH (21 January 1793 – 22 November 1848) was a cavalry officer in the British Army, rising to the rank of lieutenant-colonel.
[1] In the Peninsular War, he carried one of the colours of the 43rd at the passage of the Coa River in 1810, and was present in all the subsequent actions in which the Light Division was engaged, spending time as aide-de-camp to Major-General Charles, Baron Alten, commanding the division.
At the combat of Vera in October 1813, a Spanish force was held in check by an abattis defended by two French regiments.
He commanded it in the field under Sir Charles Napier, and with the Bombay troops sent to reinforce Lord Gough's army during the Second Anglo-Sikh War.
He fell mortally wounded at the head of his regiment in a charge on the Sikhs at the battle of Ramnagar, on the banks of the River Chenab, on 22 November 1848.