Joseph Walton (British Army officer)
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Major-General Joseph Walton (died 1808) was Master Gunner, St James's Park, the most senior ceremonial position in the Royal Artillery after the Sovereign.
Military career
Walton was commissioned into the Royal Artillery and was sent to North America where he was serving under General Thomas Gage in 1764.[https://books.google.com/books?id=SEmo-gwbLwMC&pg=PA215 Pursuit of profit and preferment in colonial North America: John Bradstreet's Quest By William G. Godfrey, Page 215] Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1983, {{ISBN|978-0-88920-108-8}}
He held the position of Master Gunner, St James's Park from 1783{{cite web|url=http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/art-eng-sig/RA.htm |title=Royal Artillery at Regiments.org |accessdate=2010-10-31 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080112133926/http://www.regiments.org/regiments/uk/art-eng-sig/RA.htm |archivedate=12 January 2008 }} and of Colonel of the Invalid Battalion from 1793.{{London Gazette|issue=13599|page=1081|date=3 December 1793}} He was promoted to Major-General in 1802{{London Gazette|issue=15478|page=466|date=8 May 1802}} and died in 1808.[https://books.google.com/books?id=wrk7AAAAYAAJ&q=%22Sir+John+MacLeod%22 Military Memoir of Lieutenant General Sir John Macleod, Page 19]
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Category:British Army personnel of the American Revolutionary War
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