OFFICIAL CASUALTY LIST OF THE

PRUSSIAN IV ARMY CORPS

UNDER GENERAL BULOW VON DENNEWITZ

DURING THE 1815 CAMPAIGN

("Nachweisung des Verlustes, dan das königlich Preußische vierte Armee-Corps unter den Befehlen des Generals der Infanterie Grafen Bülow von Dennewitz Excellenz in den verschiedenen Gefechten des Feldzuges von 1815 gehabt hat")

edited by Geert van Uythoven

The tables beneath give the number of casualties broken down to regimental level. The footnotes refer to the names of the officers, which are listed below the tables.

‘Generalität’ and unattached officers:

killed

wounded

POW / missing

total

Off.

NCO

Other

Off.

NCO

Other

Off.

NCO

Other

Off.

NCO

Other

‘Generalität’ and off. unattached

2¹⁾

1²⁾

On 18 June 1815, the battle of Waterloo (‘Belle Alliance’):

brigade	regiment	killed			wounded			POW / missing			total
brigade	regiment	Off.	NCO	Other	Off.	NCO	Other	Off.	NCO	Other	Off.	NCO	Other
13. Brigade	1. Schlesisches IR	-	3	41	10³⁾	16	195	1⁴⁾	2	6	11	21	242
	2. Neumärksch. LW IR	1⁵⁾	2	7	2⁶⁾	6	97	-	8	101	3	16	205
	3. Neumärksch. LW IR	1⁷⁾	3	23	7⁸⁾	7	119	-	3	131	8	13	273
Total:		2	8	71	19	29	411	1	13	238	22	50	720
14. Brigade	2. Schlesisches IR	2⁹⁾	4	35	13¹⁰⁾	18	289	2¹¹⁾	1	88	17	23	412
	1. Pomersches LW IR	2¹²⁾	10	103	11¹³⁾	17	230	-	-	-	13	27	333
	2. Pomersches LW IR	-	10	277	14¹⁴⁾	17	147	-	2	104	14	29	528
Total:		4	24	415	38	52	666	2	3	192	44	79	1,273
15. Brigade	18. IR	2¹⁵⁾	6	124	19¹⁶⁾	43	533	-	-	88	21	49	745
	3. Schlesisches LW IR	3¹⁷⁾	5	135	13¹⁸⁾	43	369	-	3	54	16	51	558
	4. Schlesisches LW IR	-	5	33	5¹⁹⁾	10	202	-	1	100	5	16	335
Total:		5	16	292	37	96	1,104	-	4	242	42	116	1,638
16. Brigade	15. IR	2²⁰⁾	6	60	18²¹⁾	40	511	-	-	25	20	46	596
	1. Schlesisches LW IR	5²²⁾	9	142	10²³⁾	17	390	-	4	51	15	30	583
	2. Schlesisches LW IR	1²⁴⁾	4	32	7²⁵⁾	11	174	1²⁶⁾	27	283	9	42	489
Total:		8	19	234	35	68	1,075	1	31	359	44	118	1,668
Cavalry	2. Schlesisches Husaren-Rgt.	-	1	6	1²⁷⁾	6	67	1²⁸⁾	4	40	2	11	113
	Westpreuß. Ulanen-Rgt.	-	-	1	1²⁹⁾	4	15	-	-	-	1	4	16
	10. Husaren-Rgt.	-	-	1	-	1	4	-	2	13	-	3	18
	8. Husaren-Rgt.	-	1	7	8³⁰⁾	6	44	-	-	2	8	7	53
	1. Neumark. LW-Kav.-Rgt.	-	-	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	1
	2. Neumark. LW-Kav.-Rgt.	-	1	6	5³¹⁾	7	93	-	1	9	5	9	108
	1. Pomersches LW-Kav.-Rgt.	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	3
	1. Schlesisches LW-Kav.-Rgt.	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	3	-	-	4
	2. Schlesisches LW-Kav.-Rgt.	-	-	1	1³²⁾	-	14	-	1	3	1	1	18
	3. Schlesisches LW-Kav.-Rgt.	-	1	11	2³³⁾	6	34	-	-	6	2	7	51
Total:		-	4	34	18	30	275	1	8	76	19	42	385
Artillery	12pfünd. Fuß-Bat. No.3, 5 & 13	-	-	5	-	6	22	-	-	3	-	6	30
	6pfünd. Fuß-Bat. No.2, 11, 13, 14 & 21	-	-	5	-	3	14	-	-	7	-	3	26
	Reitende Bat. No. 1, 11 & 12	-	-	5	2³⁴⁾	6	13	-	-	-	2	6	18
Total:		-	-	15	2	15	49	-	-	10	2	15	74

IV Corps:		19	71	1,061	149	290	3,580	5	59	1,117	173	420	5,758

Several combats and clashes during the period from 23 June 1815 up to 2 July 1815; including Landrecies (22-24 June), Creil (27 June), Senlis (27June), St. Denis (30 June), St. Germain (2 July), and Aubervilliers (30 June and 1 July):

brigade	regiment	killed			wounded			POW / missing			total
brigade	regiment	Off.	NCO	Other	Off.	NCO	Other	Off.	NCO	Other	Off.	NCO	Other
13. Brigade	1. Schlesisches IR	-	-	7	-	1	36	-	1	-	-	2	43
	2. Neumärksch. LW IR	-	-	-	1³⁵⁾	-	7	-	-	-	1	-	7
	3. Neumärksch. LW IR	2³⁶⁾	-	18	4³⁷⁾	3	36	-	-	2	6	3	56
Total:		2	-	25	5	4	79	-	1	2	7	5	106
14. Brigade	2. Schlesisches IR	-	-	2	-	-	5	-	-	-	-	-	7
	1. Pomersches LW IR	-	1	5	1³⁸⁾	4	21	-	-	-	1	5	26
	2. Pomersches LW IR	-	-	-	-	1	8	-	-	-	-	1	8
Total:		-	1	7	1	5	34	-	-	-	1	6	41
15. Brigade	4. Schlesisches LW IR	-	-	2	1³⁹⁾	-	22	-	-	-	1	-	24
Total:		-	-	2	1	-	22	-	-	-	1	-	24
16. Brigade	15. IR	-	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-	3
	1. Schlesisches LW IR	-	-	-	-	-	7	-	-	-	-	-	7
Total:		-	-	-	-	-	10	-	-	-	-	-	10
Cavalry	Westpreuß. Ulanen-Rgt	-	-	-	-	-	1	-	-	1	-	-	2
	1. Pomersches LW-Kav.-Rgt	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2	-	-	2
	2. Pomersches LW-Kav.-Rgt	-	-	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	2
	1. Schlesisches LW-Kav.-Rgt	-	-	-	-	1	6	-	-	-	-	1	6
Total:		-	-	2	-	1	7	-	-	3	-	1	12

IV Corps:		2	1	36	7	10	152	-	1	5	9	12	193

Raid in the Champagne:

	killed			wounded			POW / missing			total
	Off.	NCO	Other	Off.	NCO	Other	Off.	NCO	Other	Off.	NCO	Other
2 squadrons of the 2. Schlesisches LW-Kav.-Rgt; 3. Schlesisches LW-Kav.-Rgt	-	-	3	-	6	32	-	1	6	-	7	41

Total of losses of Prussian IV Corps during the 1815 campaign:

killed

wounded

POW / missing

total

Off.

NCO

Other

Off.

NCO

Other

Off.

NCO

Other

Off.

NCO

Other

1,100

157

306

3,764

1,128

185

439

5,992

OFFICER CASUALTY LIST:

(With the footnotes added from the above listings)

‘Generalität’ and unattached officers:

1) Killed: Colonel and brigade commander Graf Schwerin; Lieutenant-Colonel and brigade commander von Watzdorff.

2) Wounded: Major and General-Adjutant von Drygalsky.

13. Brigade

1. Schlesisches IR:

3) Wounded: Colonel and interim brigade commander Von Lettow; Major von Marsigli; Captain von Dorengowsky; 1st Lieutenants von Toczilowsky, and von Nordhausen; 2nd Lieutenants Barth, Kretschmer, Marquard, Witzleben, and Bartke.

4) Missing: 2nd Lieutenant Siegburg.

2. Neumärksches LW IR:

5) Killed: 1st Lieutenant Stoberts.

6) Wounded: Captain Sotta; 2nd Lieutenant Liebich.

35) Wounded: Major von Steinmetz.

3. Neumärksches LW IR:

7) Killed: 2nd Lieutenant von Normann.

36) Killed: Captain von Zastrow; 2nd Lieutenant Schmidt.

8) Wounded: Major von der Osten; Captain von Zamory; 2nd Lieutenants von Münchow, von Szerdahelly, Moritz, Alten, and Achterberg.

37) Wounded: Captain von Wedell; 2nd Lieutenants Koch, von Puttkammer, and Krohne.

14. Brigade

2. Schlesisches IR:

9) Killed: Major von Aulock; 2nd Lieutenant Dewette.

10) Wounded: Captains von Niesemeuschel, von Künsberg, and von Morgenstern; 1st Lieutenant von Aulock; 2nd Lieutenants von Bieberstein, von Ciriacy, von Rahden, von Podewils, von Bentivegny, von Egloffstein, Köpke, Bender, and Walter.

11) Missing: Captain von Niesemeuschel; 2nd Lieutenant von Bieberstein (both also wounded).

1. Pomersches LW IR:

12) Killed: 2nd Lieutenant and Adjutant Linden; 2nd Lieutenant Kuhfuß.

13) Wounded: Lieutenant-Colonel von Brandenstein; Major von Nettelhorst, and von Toll; Captains Endrees, Spalding, Löper, and Wolter; 1st Lieutenants Höpfner, and Döbecke; 2nd Lieutenants Zickel, and Nehring.

38) Wounded: 2nd Lieutenant Grützmacher.

2. Pomersches LW IR:

14) Wounded: Majors von Katte, and von Stojentin; Captains von Steinwehr, von Pauly (died of his wounds later), and Wedell; 2nd Lieutenants Strecker, Preußendorff, Barth, Ewaldt 2., Dreist, Stegemann, Schmidt, Ludwig, and Heinze.

15. Brigade

18. Infanterie-Regiment:

15) Killed: 2nd Lieutenants Schlemmer, and Wehlermann.

16) Wounded: Captains von Pogwisch, and von Glischinsky; 1st Lieutenants von Wedelstädt, Bursche, von Elsner, Kierstein, von Wallenroth, and von Taubenheim; 2nd Lieutenants von Arnhim, Bath, Kulemann, Alberty, Köppen, Bindewald, Wildermuth, Bröse, Le Blanc, Schönfeldt, and Kerzig.

3. Schlesisches LW IR:

17) Killed: 1st Lieutenants Treutter, Theininger, and Becker.

18) Wounded: Major von Tschischwitz; Captains von der Osten, and von Lepell; 1st Lieutenant Krause; 2nd Lieutenants Caspari, Böttcher, Mende, Schreiber, von Lützow, Pletsch, and Platius; and two unknown officers.

4. Schlesisches LW IR:

19) Wounded: Captain von Schirche (died of his wounds later); 1st Lieutenant Stemmler; 2nd Lieutenants Wägner, Lübich, and Schnedelbach.

39) Wounded: 2nd Lieutenant König.

16. Brigade

15. Infanterie-Regiment:

20) Killed: Captain and battalion commander von Seydlitz; 2nd Lieutenant Quänstädt.

21) Wounded: Major and battalion commander von der Böck; Captains von Jutrzenka, von Byörstirna, and von Kaweczinsky; 1st Lieutenant Redecker; 2nd Lieutenant and Adjutant Preuß; 2nd Lieutenants Nadler, Menses, Frohreichel, Heiring, Hassenstein, Luck, Hülfen, Sinell, Lindenhöfen, Wittke, Fetscherini (died of his wounds later), and Helm.

1. Schlesisches LW IR:

22) Killed: Major von Seydlitz; Captain von Wittig; 1st Lieutenant Geisler; 2nd Lieutenants von Briesen, and Hildebrandt.

23) Wounded: Captains von Maistre, Schrötter, and Salisch; 1st Lieutenants Herzberg, Bogt, and Laubach; 2nd Lieutenants Gregor 1., Löwe, Bemda, and Stürmer.

2. Schlesisches LW IR:

24) Killed: 2nd Lieutenant Zimmermann.

25) Wounded: Major von Schwemmler; 2nd Lieutenants Richter, Brandt, Gringmuth, von Arnim, Beyer, and von Sack.

26) Missing: 2nd Lieutenant Köszegy.

Cavalry

2. Schlesisches Husaren-Regiment:

27) Wounded: Rittmeister von Wander.

28) Missing: 2nd Lieutenant Henel.

Westpreußisches Ulanen-Regiment:

29) Wounded: 2nd Lieutenant von Knobelsdorff.

8. Husaren-Regiment:

30) Wounded: Rittmeister von Erichsen; 2nd Lieutenants Banhöffen, Mollendorf, Plieth, Düringsfeld, Winterfeld, Jenni, and Oettinger.

2. Neumarksches LW-Kav.-Rgt.:

31) Wounded: Lieutenant-Colonel von Hiller; Rittmeisters von Görtz, and von Raussendorff; 1st Lieutenant Oestreich; 2nd Lieutenant Braun.

2. Schlesisches LW-Kav.-Rgt.:

32) Wounded: 2nd Lieutenant von Schweitznitz.

3. Schlesisches LW-Kav.-Rgt.:

33) Wounded: Rittmeister von Altenstein; and one unknown officer.

Artillery

Horse artillerie (‘Reitende Artillerie’):

34) Wounded: Captains von Zincken, and von Pfeil.

Source: Militair-Wochenblatt No.37 (Berlin 1817) pp. 76-79.