A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Wall, Henry
WALL. (Lieutenant, 1841.)
Henry Wall is son of Major Adam Wall, who was killed at the battle of Waterloo in command of the 4th Brigade of Artillery.
This officer entered the Navy, in May, 1819, on board the Egeria 28, then on the Newfoundland station. Removing in 1823 to the Thetis 46, Capt. Sir John Phillimore, he sailed in that ship in the following year for Cape Coast Castle; where, uniting in the warfare against the Ashantees, he landed and received a severe gun-shot wound in the right knee while engaged on picket duty. In 1825 he, and the First-Lieutenant of the Thetis, alone earned the thanks of both Houses of Parliament and of the Board of Trade for their exertions in saving 107 sail of merchantmen, which had been cast on shore in a heavy gale in the Bay of Gibraltar. After he left the Thetis he served in succession on board the Spartiate 76, Ocean 80, Revenge 78, Wellesley 74, Ocean again, and Tribune 42. While so employed he assisted in restoring Morea to the Greeks, and in affording support, on the coast of Catalonia, to the interests of Queen Christina during the Carlist revolution. From 4 May, 1840, until 1842 he held an appointment in the Coast Guard. Although he had passed his examination 4 Oct. 1826 he was not promoted to the rank of Lieutenant until 23 Nov. 1841. He served in the Resistance 42, troop-ship, Capt. Chas. Geo. Edw. Patey, from 12 Nov. 1842 until 1845; and from 1 Nov. in the latter year until 1848 he was again employed in the Coast Guard.
Lieut. Wall is married to a distant relative of the late Vice-Admiral Sir Sam. Hood, K.B, Agents – Messrs. Stilwell.