Talk:Anthony Bacon (British Army officer)

This is the talk page for discussing improvements to the Anthony Bacon (British Army officer) article.
This is not a forum for general discussion of the article's subject.

Put new text under old text. Click here to start a new topic.
New to Wikipedia? Welcome! Learn to edit; get help.

Article policies

Find sources: Google (books · news · scholar · free images · WP refs) · FENS · JSTOR · TWL

Biography: Military

	Biography portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography, a collaborative effort to create, develop and organize Wikipedia's articles about people. All interested editors are invited to join the project and contribute to the discussion. For instructions on how to use this banner, please refer to the documentation.BiographyWikipedia:WikiProject BiographyTemplate:WikiProject Biographybiography articles
	This article is supported by the military biography work group (assessed as Low-importance).
	An editor has requested that an image or photograph be added to this article.

Military history: Biography / British / European / Napoleonic era

This article is within the scope of the Military history WikiProject. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the project and see a list of open tasks. To use this banner, please see the full instructions.Military historyWikipedia:WikiProject Military historyTemplate:WikiProject Military historymilitary history articles

This article has been checked against the following criteria for B-class status:
Referencing and citation: criterion not met Coverage and accuracy: criterion not met Structure: criterion met Grammar and style: criterion met Supporting materials: criterion not met

Associated task forces:
/
	Military biography task force
	British military history task force
	European military history task force
	Napoleonic era task force (c. 1792 – 1815)

United Kingdom Low‑importance

	United Kingdom portal This article is within the scope of WikiProject United Kingdom, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of the United Kingdom on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, please visit the project page, where you can join the discussion and see a list of open tasks.United KingdomWikipedia:WikiProject United KingdomTemplate:WikiProject United KingdomUnited Kingdom articles
Low	This article has been rated as Low-importance on the project's importance scale.

It is requested that a photograph be included in this article to improve its quality.
The external tool WordPress Openverse may be able to locate suitable images on Flickr and other web sites.

Upload

A fact from Anthony Bacon (British Army officer) appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 1 March 2008, and was viewed approximately 12 times (disclaimer) (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that General Anthony Bacon, hero of Waterloo, resigned his commission in protest when the colonelcy of the 17th Lancers was purchased by Lord Lucan?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2008/March.

Wikipedia

London Gazette

Additional references (defintive records of his change of name from Bacon Bushby to Bacon, army commisions etc) can be found here. I'm a little short of time at the moment or I'd add them myself {{LondonGazette}} may also be useful for formatting these. Also details of Anthony Bacon sr are also available in the ODNB http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/50608 David Underdown (talk) 13:37, 25 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Waterloo Medal

With respect to Bacon's receipt of the Waterloo Medal, he probably received it and was certainly entitled to. It should be noted that virtually all british forces present received this award. I believe it was the first campaign medal awarded to British "other ranks", (enlisted personnel.)The context of the passage suggests to me this award was a special distinction for Bacon. It was clearly not. Ploughmanslunch (talk) 19:35, 7 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

External links modified (January 2018)

Hello fellow Wikipedians,

I have just modified one external link on Anthony Bacon (British Army officer). Please take a moment to review my edit. If you have any questions, or need the bot to ignore the links, or the page altogether, please visit this simple FaQ for additional information. I made the following changes:

Added archive https://web.archive.org/web/20080216062243/http://www.historikorders.com/10thhussars.htm to http://www.historikorders.com/10thhussars.htm

When you have finished reviewing my changes, you may follow the instructions on the template below to fix any issues with the URLs.

This message was posted before February 2018. After February 2018, "External links modified" talk page sections are no longer generated or monitored by InternetArchiveBot. No special action is required regarding these talk page notices, other than regular verification using the archive tool instructions below. Editors have permission to delete these "External links modified" talk page sections if they want to de-clutter talk pages, but see the RfC before doing mass systematic removals. This message is updated dynamically through the template {{source check}} (last update: 5 June 2024).

If you have discovered URLs which were erroneously considered dead by the bot, you can report them with this tool.
If you found an error with any archives or the URLs themselves, you can fix them with this tool.

Cheers.—InternetArchiveBot (Report bug) 07:30, 24 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]