Major General Percy Drummond (died 1843) C.B. was a British Royal Artillery officer during the

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Biography

Percy Drummond was the son Duncan Drummond Drummond entered the Royal Artillery as

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on 1 January 1794, and consequently had been 49 years an officer of the corps. He was promoted to be

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on 14 August 1794; and in 1795 he performed, in addition to his other duties, that of Quartermaster of his battalion. He was gazetted Captain on 7 October 1799; Major on 4 June 1811; Lieutenant Colonel on 12 August 1819; Colonel on 13 October 1827; and retired from connection with a battalion on being promoted to be Major General on 10 January 1837. At that period he was Lieutenant-Governor of the

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, which position be retained until May 1839, when he succeeded, on the death of Sir Alexander Dickson, as Director General of the Royal Artillery. Drummond was at the Siege of Copenhagen in 1794–1795, He took part in the

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in 1809 and was present at the capture of the Island of

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, and siege of

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. He was also present with his company in Portugal, with Sir John Moore, until the embarkation of the troops after the

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, and was engaged in the

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of 1815, including the

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. Drummond died on 1 January 1843 at his residence in the Royal Arsenal, Woolwich.

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* * 1843 deaths Year of birth unknown British Army personnel of the Napoleonic Wars British Army personnel of the Peninsular War Royal Artillery officers British Army major generals {{UK-army-bio-stub