Sergeant-Major Arthur Myers, 7th (or The Queen's Own) Regiment of (Light) Dragoons, 1805

Oil on canvas, signed lower right 'Ed. Cooper pinxit 1805', by Edwin Cooper (1785-1833), 1805.

Arthur Myers was promoted corporal in 1794, sergeant in 1797 and sergeant-major in 1804. Most unusually, he was then commissioned as cornet in the same regiment in 1808. This promotion was made at the request of his commanding officer, Lieutenant-Colonel Richard Hussey Vivian. Both Lieutenant-Colonel Vivian and the colonel of the regiment, Lord Anglesey, valued merit very highly and were willing to reward it.

Myers served overseas with the regiment during the Peninsular War (1808-1814), including at Corunna in 1809. He served as adjutant and was promoted lieutenant in 1810. After being wounded and taken prisoner at Genappe on 17 June 1815, he was brutally killed by the French.