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Cavalry Officers of the Netherlands: (Serving from 1813 to 1815)

Haak to Hoijnck van Papendrecht

By Geert van Uythoven

Haak, H.

Born: 1775
Pensioned: 16 March 1841
2nd Lieutenant: 8 May 1815
1st Lieutenant: 15 May 1822
Cavalry-Captain: 19 March 1831
Wounded and POW 1815
Regiment in the Waterloo Campaign: 4th Light Dragoons
Died: 29 December 1843

Habets, Jan Joseph

Born: 1793
In Service: 1811
Pensioned: 31 December 1852
2nd Lieutenant: 15 March 1814
1st Lieutenant: 9 November 1816
Cavalry-Captain: 21 July 1828
Major: 3 January 1839
Lieutenant-Colonel: 26 March 1841
Colonel: 6 December 1846
Major-General: 31 December 1852
Died: 5 October 1858
MWO: 4th Class Knight 12 October 1831

Hacquart, Charles

Born: Gent (Be), 24-11-1786
In Service: 1805
2nd Lieutenant: 24 July 1813
1st Lieutenant: 9 November 1815
Died: 22 July 1825
Regiment in the Waterloo Campaign: 2nd Carabiniers
MWO: 4th Class Knight 24 Nov. 1816

* Former French service: 1me Chasseurs â Cheval

Ha(e)ne de Steenhuize, Constant Joseph Ghislain Marie Count d’

Born: Gent (Be), 15-11-1790
In Service: 1810 (French army)
Pensioned: 9 October 1830 (placed on half-pay) / 8 January 1849 (Belgian army)
2nd Lieutenant: 27 June 1810
1st Lieutenant: 15 May 1812
Cavalry-Captain: 21 September 1814
Major: 16 April 1830
Lieutenant-Colonel: 1830 (Belgian army)
Colonel: 24 October 1830
Major-General: 16 June 1831
Lieutenant-General: 22 May 1842
Died: 18 September 1850
Regiment in the Waterloo Campaign: 2nd Carabiniers

* Former French service: hussars 1810-1814; Chevalier Légion d’Honneur 1817; Officier Légion d’Honneur 1832; Grand officier Légion d’Honneur 1847, Chevalier de l’Ordre de Léopold (Belgium) 15 December 1833; Officierr de l’Ordre de Léopold 15 December 1837; Commandeur de l’Ordre de Léopold 20 July 1846; Chevalier de l’Ordre de la Réunion; Commandeur de l Órdre royal de la Tour et l Épee (Portugal); Commandeur 1st Class de l’Ordre de famille Ernest de Saxe; Ritter 2. Klasse der Roten Adler (Prussia) .

Hannemann, J.C.F.

Born: 1781
In Service: 1799
2nd Lieutenant: 28 March 1807
1st Lieutenant: 14 September 1813
Cavalry-Captain: 22 October 1814
Died: 16 April 1819

* Transferred to the army of the Dutch East-Indies October 1815

Hanswijk, W.J.A. van

Born: 1788
In Service: 1805
2nd Lieutenant: 26 February 1807
1st Lieutenant: 5 September 1813
Cavalry-Captain: 19 February 1819
Died: 16 May 1832

Happé, J.G.

Born: 1791
In Service: 1813
2nd Lieutenant: 26 August 1824
1st Lieutenant: 19 March 1831
Cavalry-Captain: 22 October 1836
Died: 25 February 1848
MWO: Knight 12 October 1831

Haringmans, A.J.

Born: 1782
In Service: 1796
Pensioned: 4 June 1822
2nd Lieutenant: 10 January 1804
1st Lieutenant: 10 January 1814
Died: 28 December 1836

Harmann, J.A.

Born: 1773
In Service: 1788
2nd Lieutenant: 21 October 1806
1st Lieutenant: 9 October 1812
Cavalry-Captain: 21 September 1815 (Army Dutch East-Indies)
Died: 10 November 1817

Hartingh, L.N.

Born: 1769
In Service: 1782
2nd Lieutenant: 20 October 1786
1st Lieutenant: 27 July 1793
Cavalry-Captain: 15 April 1802
Major: 23 January 1814
Lieutenant-Colonel: 26 March 1815
2nd Colonel: 2 September 1815
Colonel: 17 August 1820
Died: 17 February 1823

Harwich, D.A.

Born: 1785
In Service: 1800
2nd Lieutenant: 6 August 1816
Died: 27 July 1819

* Transferred to the army of the Dutch East-Indies 31 December 1816

Hazard, F.H.J.

Born: 1791
In Service: 1809
Honourable Discharge: 1815
2nd Lieutenant: 8 October 1814
Died: 28 February 1836

Heeckeren van de Cloese, C.J. Baron van

Born: 1798
In Service: 1814
Pensioned: 16 March 1841
2nd Lieutenant: 2 September 1815
1st Lieutenant: 19 February 1819
Cavalry-Captain: 16 April 1830
Died: 9 June 1848

Heeckeren van Overlaar, W.R.J.W. Baron van

Born: 1779
In Service: 1791
Pensioned: 1816
2nd Lieutenant: 27 April 1814
Died: 29 May 1838
MWO: 4th Class Knight 11 August 1815

Heemskerck, G.C.C van

Born: 1799
In Service: 1814
Pensioned: 14 February 1853
2nd Lieutenant: 23 August 1820
1st Lieutenant: 16 April 1830
Cavalry-Captain: 22 October 1836
Major: 15 January 1851
Lieutenant-Colonel: 14 February 1853
Died: 23 January 1886
Orde Ned. Leeuw: Knight 10 May 1849

Heerdt, Karel Eduard H. Baron van

Born: 1797
In Service: 1814
2nd Lieutenant: 26 June 1814
1st Lieutenant: 18 April 1820
Cavalry-Captain: 16 April 1830
Major: 3 January 1839
Lieutenant-Colonel: 3 November 1843
Colonel: 7 October 1849
Major-General: 30 May 1854
Died: 27 August 1855
MWO: 4th Class Knight 18 July 1815
Orde Ned. Leeuw: Knight 6 December 1847

Hees, D. van

Born: 1772
In Service: 1791
Pensioned: 18 August 1814
2nd Lieutenant: 14 June 1791
1st Lieutenant: 30 December 1793
Cavalry-Captain: 4 July 1795
Lieutenant-Colonel: 8 August 1814
Died: 24 September 1827
MWO: 4th Class Knight 18 July 1815

Heiden, Frederik Maurits Count van

Born: 1776
In Service: 1792
2nd Lieutenant: 4 March 1796
1st Lieutenant: 26 February 1807
Cavalry-Captain: 18 March 1813 (French service); 1 January 1815 (Netherlands service)
Killed: 18 June 1815 (Waterloo)

Hencart, Pierre Maximilien Joseph

Born: Liège (Be), 24-03-1777
In Service: 1799 (French army)
Honourable Discharge: 5 November 1830 (Netherlands army)
2nd Lieutenant: 11 June 1810
1st Lieutenant: 2 September 1815
Died: Neerhaeren (Limbourg, Be), 13 January 1860
MWO: 4th Class Knight 18 July 1815

* Former French service: hussar, sous-Lieutenant and Lieutenant 1800-1814; In Netherlands service 1814.

Henry, J.J.

Born: 1788
In Service: 1807
2nd Lieutenant: 13 December 1814
Killed: 18 June 1815 (Waterloo)Regiment in the Waterloo Campaign: 2nd Carabiniers

Hermans, L.C.

Born: 1789
In Service: 1813
Pensioned: 1 January 1824
2nd Lieutenant: 5 June 1813
1st Lieutenant: 17 June 1818
Died: 18 September 1864

Heshusius, Everhardus Henricus

Born: 1773
In service: 1798
2nd Lieutenant: 14 August 1803
1st Lieutenant: 3 July 1810
Cavalry-Captain: 23 January 1814
Major: 16 August 1817
Died: 22 August 1822
Regiment in the Waterloo Campaign: 1st Carabiniers
MWO: 4th Class Knight 18 July 1815

Heslinga, K.

Born: 1790
In Service: 1812
2nd Lieutenant: 8 May 1815
1st Lieutenant: 15 May 1821
Died: 7 May 1826

* Transferred to the infantry 16 June 1823

Hessen van Philippsthal, E.C. Landgraaf van

Born: 1771
In Service:
Honourable Discharge: 6 November 1819
Colonel: 13 November 1815
Major-General: 6 November 1819
Died: 25 December 1849

Heusch, Louis Ernest Amand Marie Baron de

Born: Gembloux (Be), 16-02-1789
In Service: 1805 (Austrian army)
Pensioned: 16 April 1830 (placed on half-pay)
2nd Lieutenant: 16 February 1809
1st Lieutenant: 12 March 1812
Cavalry-Captain: 22 July 1822
Died: 25 October 1851
Regiment in the Waterloo Campaign: 2nd Carabiniers

* Former Austrian service: cadet in the Chevau-légers Regiment No.5 ‘Klenau’ 1806: won the Criox du Canon; In Netherlands service 1815.

Heuvel, A.F.J. van den

Born: 1786
In Service: 1813
2nd Lieutenant: 17 February 1815
1st Lieutenant: 2 September 1815
Died: 13 January 1827

Heuvel, Q.C. van den

Born: 1789
In Service: 1809
Pensioned: 1 April 1824
2nd Lieutenant: 2 September 1815
Died: 18 May 1866

* Transferred to the infantry 18 April 1822

Heuving, H.

Born: 1779
In Service: 1798
Pensioned: 11 May 1839
2nd Lieutenant: 19 February 1819
1st Lieutenant: 28 December 1826
Cavalry-Captain: 5 October 1831
Died: 16 march 1858
Regiment in the Waterloo Campaign: 4th Light Dragoons
MWO: 4th Class Knight 18 July 1815/11 August 1815

Heijn, J.

Born: 1797
In Service: 1814
Pensioned: 17 August 1852
2nd Lieutenant: 4 September 1829
1st Lieutenant: 19 March 1831
Cavalry-Captain: 22 December 1840
Major: 28 November 1846
Lieutenant-Colonel: 16 March 1848
Died: 30 September 1872

* Transferred to the army of the Dutch East-Indies 31 December 184?

Hoezee, F.

Born: 1793
Honourable Discharge: 3 September 1814
2nd Lieutenant: 23 January 1814
Died: 9 December 1861

Hoffmann, F.C. van

Born: 1793
In Service: 1806
2nd Lieutenant: 30 April 1812
1st Lieutenant: 16 August 1817
Died: Dutch East-Indies

Hoffmann, Mr. F.G.

Born: 1790
In Service: 1814
Honourable Discharge: 16 June 1817
2nd Lieutenant: 23 January 1814
1st Lieutenant: 2 September 1815
Died: 5 March 1845

Hoffmann, J.C.

Born: 1758
In Service: 1775
Pensioned: 19 February 1819
2nd Lieutenant: 15 April 1776
1st Lieutenant: 1781
Cavalry-Captain: 23 January 1814
Died: 24 August 1832

Hogendorp, F. van

Born: 1778
In Service: 1791
Pensioned: 4 November 1846
2nd Lieutenant: 15 August 1794
1st Lieutenant: 8 July 1803
Cavalry-Captain: 23 January 1814
Major: 16 April 1830
Died: 10 May 1854
MWO: 4th Class Knight 18 July 1815/11 August 1815

Hogendorp, J.F. van

Born: 1774
In Service: 1790
Pensioned: 20 December 1826
2nd Lieutenant: 7 January 1791
1st Lieutenant: 27 April 1793
Cavalry-Captain: 14 March 1811
Major: 5 April 1815
Lieutenant-Colonel: 18 April 1820
Colonel: 20 December 1826
Died: 29 April 1845

Holfschmidt, J.

Born: 1783
In Service: 1800
2nd Lieutenant: 19 February 1819
Died: 8 September 1826
MWO: 4th Class Knight 11 August 1815

* Transferred to the army of the Dutch East-Indies 17 February 1824

Hollard, G. de

2nd Lieutenant: 26 November 1816
1st Lieutenant:
Died: 21 May 1818

* Transferred to the army of the Dutch East-Indies 31 December 1816

Holmberg de Beckfelt, Jhr. O.C.

Born: 1794
In Service: 1807
Honourable Discharge: 26 March 1823
2nd Lieutenant: 24 July 1810
1st Lieutenant: 5 February 1813
Cavalry-Captain: 8 October 1816
Died: 24 December 1857

* Transferred to the army of the Dutch East-Indies 31 December 1816

Hoogeveen, J.

Born: 1776
In Service: 1794
Pensioned: 19 July 1845
2nd Lieutenant: 6 December 1813
1st Lieutenant: 23 January 1814
Cavalry-Captain: 18 April 1820
Died: 21 November 1854

Hoop, A. van der

Born: 1789
Honourable Discharge: 31 January 1814
1st Lieutenant: 18 September 1813
Captain-Quartermaster 5 May 1825:
Died: 12 November 1827
MWO: 4th Class Knight 17 August 1815

Hoorick, Louis van

Born: Brussels (Be), 01-09-1780
In Service: 1803
Honourable Discharge: 22 October 1830 (Netherlands army)
Pensioned: 11 July 1842 (Belgian army)
2nd Lieutenant: 7 June 1803
1st Lieutenant: 29 May 1807
Cavalry-Captain: 12 October 1814
Major: 11 November 1823
Lieutenant-Colonel: 31 December 1830 (Belgian army)
Colonel: 27 January 1839
Died: 18 February 1843
Regiment in the Waterloo Campaign: 2nd Carabiniers

* Former French service: Lieutenant of the cuirassiers 1809-1811; In Netherlands service 1815.

Hotton, Louis Joseph

Born: Brussels (Be), 02-02-1785
In Service: 1799
Honourable Discharge: 18/21 August 1818
2nd Lieutenant: 5 May 1805
1st Lieutenant: 20 November 1811
Cavalry-Captain: 17 April/June 1s

* Former French service: sous-Lieutenant of the chasseurs à cheval; Lieutenant, captain, and chef d’escadron –1815; Officier Légion d’Honneur; Chevalier de Saint-Louis.

Hougardy, A.J.

Born: 1788
In Service: 1807
Pensioned: 1 February 1819
2nd Lieutenant: 14 December 1814
Died: 27 October 1843

Hoyer, B.F.

Born: 1797
In Service: 1815
2nd Lieutenant: 19 August 1821
Died: 11 August 1824

Hoijnck van Papendrecht, Arend Johan

Born: 1773
In Service: 1787
1st Lieutenant: 13 June 1795
Cavalry-Captain: 10 July 1805
Lieutenant-Colonel: 24 July 1813
2nd Colonel: 19 December 1816
Colonel: 17 August 1820
Died: 23 May 1828
MWO: 3rd Class Knight 18 July 1815

* 1815 Chief of Staff, Netherlands Cavalry Division.

Placed on the Napoleon Series: October 2013