
Charles Morice (1775-16 June 1815) was a British Army lieutenant-colonel who commanded the 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot during the Napoleonic Wars.
Biography[]
Charles Morice was born in 1775 and educated at Eton, and he joined the 15th (The Yorkshire East Riding) Regiment of Foot as an ensign on 1 July 1793. He reached the rank of lieutenant-colonel in 1808 and was given command of the 69th (South Lincolnshire) Regiment of Foot in 1813; he was wounded in the night attack on Bergen-op-Zoom in 1814. On 16 June 1815, he was killed during a French cavalry charge at the Battle of Quatre Bras.