The work of Captain Lionel S Challis, Queen's Westminster Rifles a

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Just in case anybody ever needs a link to an Officers Roll for the Peninsular War 1808 to 1814 - this very interesting bio on Captain Lionel S Challis came up in one of my diverse searches ......

Lionel S. Challis's "Peninsula Roll Call"

Captain Lionel Challis

After the First World War, Captain Lionel S. Challis of the Queen's Westminister Rifles, began a project that would consume much of his time over the next three decades. His goal was to develop a listing of every British Army officer who served in the Peninsular War from 1808 - 1814. Captain Challis scoured Army Lists, Gazettes, despatches, official records, and regimental histories for information. He recorded what he found on more than 9,600 officers onto index cards, but realizing that the final product would be too expensive to publish, in 1949 he donated his research to the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI). The cards now reside in a cabinet in the RUSI Library. The Royal United Services Institute owns the copyright to the "Peninsula Roll Call" and has very generously given the Napoleon Series permission to publish it on the Napoleon Series.

(Here's the link to the main pages - http://www.napoleon-series.org/research/biographies/GreatBritain/Challis/c_ChallisIntro.html)