About Kelthonas
Relation of William Keevers (King’s Irish) Regiment (Light) Dragoons (Hussars), British Army.
He traveled with the regiment to Portugal in February 1813 to take part in the Peninsula War against Napoleon Bonaparte’s French forces.
The regiment stayed with the army of Sir Arthur Wellesley throughout the campaign taking part in some of the key battles at Vittoria and Toulouse.
When Napoleon returned from his exile on Elba in 1815, Private Keevers and the regiment returned to France.
They took an active part in the decisive Battle of Waterloo and were kept in France as part of the army of occupation for two years.