Talk:William Hewett (British Army officer)

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A fact from William Hewett (British Army officer) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 23 August 2024 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that William Hewett was the last-surviving British Army officer to have fought at the Battle of Waterloo?

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William Hewett c. 1880

... that William Hewett (pictured) was the last surviving British Army officer to have fought at the Battle of Waterloo?

Source: "Lieutenant-Colonel William Hewett of the 14th Foot was the last British Waterloo officer to die when he passed away in Southampton in October 1891" from: Foster, R. E. (3 February 2014). Wellington and Waterloo: The Duke, The Battle and Posterity 1815-2015. The History Press. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-7509-5480-8.

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/H. Wortman Pumping Station

Moved to mainspace by Dumelow (talk). Number of QPQs required: 1. Nominator has 862 past nominations.

Dumelow (talk) 07:14, 26 July 2024 (UTC).[reply]

I'll review this. BeanieFan11 (talk) 20:07, 27 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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Overall: Looks good. Nice work. BeanieFan11 (talk) 00:52, 28 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Unattached list

What's the unattached list? The only other article I can find this in is Charles Frederick Cox, which notes that he was on the unattached officer list (no redlink). I see quite a few mentions of it online and in books, and forum posts from people who claim to know what it means (very nice, but entirely WP:OR), but I can find no reliable sources that actually explain what it is. Renerpho (talk) 09:03, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Renerpho, I did the same with the intention of creating a stub to at least explain what it was but couldn't find a good enough source. There was a similar Town Major's List used in the pre-Mutiny Indian Army. I am not sure our current redirects for Special List and General List to General Service Corps are very helpful and ought to be spun out into their own articles. If you find anything let me know, happy to assist on an article - Dumelow (talk) 12:54, 23 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Dumelow: Considering that the GSC was formed in 1942, those redirects are decidedly unhelpful when it comes to people like Hewett and Cox, and the distinction between unattached, special and general lists in 1825 or 1911, respectively. Taking the (potentially unreliable) information at [1] (since 1821, applicable to British India only) and [2] (since 1846, British Army, mostly about India), both sources talk about the unattached list forming a kind of special reserve. This is a completely different context than GSC, and may or may not also be unrelated to the definition needed for William Hewett. And then there's the current definition of "unattached list" used in Australia, where it refers to "Senior Executive Service (SES) officers who are no longer appointed to a position".[3] By the way, our article Senior Executive Service very (un)helpfully is about a position classification in the United States federal civil service, rather than Australia, and it gives no indication that the name may apply to anything else. Oh joy... Renerpho (talk) 14:53, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

@Renerpho: On that tangent -- any chance you'd want to create a stub at Senior Executive Service (Australia)? We can then make Senior Executive Service into a dab page, vs. a redirect. Ed ^{[talk] [OMT]} 14:34, 29 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

I have notified the relevant WikiProject at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Military history#"Unattached list", 1825-1911. Renerpho (talk) 15:35, 27 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]