Walter Stapleton (soldier)

{{notability|1=Biographies|date=October 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2025}} {{Use Hiberno-English|date=October 2025}} {{Infobox military person | name = Walter Stapleton | image = | caption = | birth_date = unknown | death_date = 1746 | burial_label = | burial_place = | birth_place = [[Kingdom of Ireland|Ireland]] | death_place = [[Culloden, Highland|Culloden]], [[Scotland]] | burial_coordinates =  | nickname = | allegiance = {{flagcountry|Kingdom of France}}<br/>{{flagicon image|Jacobite Standard (1745).svg}} [[Jacobitism|Jacobites]] | branch = | service_years = | rank = Colonel | service_number = | unit = [[Irish Brigade (France)|Irish Brigade]] | commands = Irish Picquets | battles = {{tree list}} *[[War of Austrian Succession]] ** [[Battle of Fontenoy]] * [[Jacobite rising 1745|Jacobite rising]] ** [[Battle of Falkirk Muir]] ** [[Siege of Fort Augustus (1746)|Siege of Fort Augustus]] ** [[Battle of Culloden]] {{tree list/end}} | battles_label = | awards = | relations = | other_work = }}

'''Walter Valentine Stapleton''' (died 1746), was an [[Irish military diaspora|Irish soldier]] who served in the [[Irish Brigade (France)|French army]] during the [[War of Austrian Succession]] and was sent to [[Scotland]] shortly afterwards to fight in the [[Jacobite rising of 1745]] where he commanded the [[Jacobite Army (1745)|Irish Picquet]] regiment and died from severe wounds after the [[Battle of Culloden]].<ref>{{Cite journal |title=Biographical Dictionary of Irishmen in France |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/27198159?utm_source=chatgpt.com |website=JSTOR | jstor=27198159 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=History of the Regiment |url=https://www.dillonsregiment.org.uk/history-of-the-regiment/?utm_source=chatgpt.com |website=dillonsregiment.org.u | date=15 December 2018 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=THE DREAM THAT DIED AT CULLODEN |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/11930949.the-dream-that-died-at-culloden/ |website=The Herald |date=10 October 1989 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Request by C. Stephen for details of Brigadier Walter Stapleton who fought at Culloden where he died of wounds. |url=https://sources.nli.ie/Record/PS_UR_091869 |website=National Library of Ireland |date=1914 }}</ref>

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