General FitzRoy James Henry Somerset, 1st Baron Raglan. Lord Raglan was a highly experienced soldier, his career having begun in 1804 when he was commissioned into the 4th Light Dragoons, later joining the staff of Sir Arthur Wellesley, the future Duke of Wellington, at the Battle of Copenhagen. He continued to serve with Wellesley throughout the Peninsular War as his principle aide-de-camp and then his Military Secretary. He also fought with Wellington in the Waterloo campaign where he was severely wounded, losing his right hand. When Wellington became Commander-in-Chief of the Army, Somerset continued as his Military Secretary. In 1854 he was promoted to full General and given command of the Eastern Army. Raglan became a Field Marshal following the Battle of Inkerman in November 1855. On 29 June 1855 he died due to complications brought on by a bout of dysentery. Though well-liked by some, Raglan proved to be indecisive and his orders inexplicit, as exemplified by his instructions to the Light Brigade at Balaklava. According to one Guards officer, Colonel Henry Percy, Raglan, ‘never shows himself not even after an action, to the men . . . [he] has thrown away his opportunities of being known to the troops, he is a myth to half of them.’ Fanny Duberly gave this assessment of Raglan following his death: ‘We are almost tempted to lose sight of the inefficient General, in the recollection of the kind-hearted, gentlemanly man, who had so hard a task, which he fulfilled so well, of keeping together and in check the heads of so many armies.’