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Captain in the 14th Light Dragoons
-- "Gentleman's Magazine" Vol 79 Part 2, Sept 1809, page 886:
At Santa Cruz, in Spain, three days after the battle of Talavera, of a fever, occasioned by excessive fatigue, Capt. the Hon. Henry Neville, of the 14th Light Dragoons, second son of Lord Braybrooke.
--- "Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third: 1800-1805" Vol. IV, 1855, page 362:
MR. W.H. FREMANTLE TO THE MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM.
Englefield Green, Sept. 12, 1809.
My Dear Lord,
I am very glad to hear you are better, and continue to find so much benefit from the warm bath. I condole with you on the loss of poor Henry Neville, whom every body unites in speaking well of.
I had a letter this morning from J. Fremantle, dated the 25th August, in which he says, "poor Neville was very ill, and much reduced by a violent dysentery, before the battle of Talavera, but he could not be persuaded to take care of himself, and after it, he continued taking his share of his outpost duty. Fever came on him at Truxillo, and on his way to Elvas, where all the sick were ordered, he died at Santa Cruz, on the 21st, the first day's journey from Truxillo, at nine o'clock in the morning; and if it had not been for our brigade passing this, nobody would have known who he was, or anything about him. Most of the officers of the brigade of Guards attended his burial that night."
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1788 - 1809 (21 years)
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