Browse these rather than the above. Aha, the original set: Prints, Drawings & Watercolors from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection A Zoauve too - Surely one of the more pleasing forms of historical Soldier: Prints, Drawings & Watercolors from the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection
There is a folk song about Waterloo that someone performed I beveled on the BBC at least after they broadcast in colour that was past first hand??? Have always look for it any ideas here?
Amazing photos Adam, makes me wonder if there is a similar collection of Allied Waterloo veterans. Off googling for it - I may be some time.
Veterans from the War of 1812. "This is the footage of the funeral of Hiram Cronk (1800-1905), the last known veteran of the War of 1812 from either side." Funeral of Hiram Cronk, War of 1812 Veteran - YouTube Historic photograph of 1812 veterans was taken in 1861 at Rosedale (Toronto) Six Nations Veterans - War of 1812 You may have opened a can of worms here Adam ...
An excellent set from the Crimea: Crimean War Photographs by Roger Fenton, March - June 1855 Not quite war related but an interesting video of the world's oldest photographs. Note the earliest born person to be captured in a photo. World's Oldest Photographs - YouTube
Amazing photos Adam, makes me wonder if there is a similar collection of Allied Waterloo veterans. Off googling for it - I may be some time. Not a collection but a single photo that Google thread up. A really Long Shot - Waterloo Veteran Family History Local History http://www.rootschat.com/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=257088.0;id=62744;image
Is this ok to add? Louis-Victor Baillot, last French veteran of Waterloo From here: onelondonone: Sir Walter Scott at Waterloo
Some of the regiments listed may have photographs in collections: Some of the regiments have again amalgamated - the museums will often still exist in the old name style. Regiments present at the battle: 1st Life Guards now the Life Guards 2nd Life Guards now the Life Guards Royal Horse Guards now the Blues and Royals King’s Dragoon Guards now the Queen’s Dragoon Guards Royal Dragoons now the Blues and Royals Royal Scots Greys now the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards 6th Inniskilling Dragoons later the 5th Inniskilling Dragoon Guards and now the Royal Dragoon Guards 7th Hussars later the Queen’s Own Hussars and now the Queen’s Royal Hussars 10th Hussars later the Royal Hussars and now the King’s Royal Hussars 11th Hussars later the Royal Hussars and now the King’s Royal Hussars 12th Light Dragoons now the 9th/12th Lancers 13th Light Dragoons later the 13th/18th King’s Royal Hussars and now the Light Dragoons 15th Light Dragoons later the 15th/19th Hussars and now the Light Dragoons 16th Light Dragoons later the 16th/5th Lancers and now the Queen’s Royal Lancers 18th Light Dragoons later the 13th/18th King’s Royal Hussars and now the Light Dragoons Royal Artillery Royal Engineers 1st Foot Guards now the Grenadier Guards 2nd Coldstream Guards 3rd Foot Guards now the Scots Guards 1st Foot now the Royal Scots Royal Regt Scotland 4th King’s Own Regiment of Foot now the King’s Own Royal Border Regiment 14th Foot later the West Yorkshire Regiment and now the Prince of Wales’s Own Regiment of Yorkshire 23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers 27th Foot, the Inniskilling Fusiliers and now the Royal Irish Regiment 28th Foot later the Gloucestershire Regiment and now the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment 30th Foot later the East Lancashire Regiment and now the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment 32nd Foot later the Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry and now the Light Infantry 33rd Foot the Duke of Wellington’s Regiment 40th Foot later the South Lancashire Regiment and now the Queen’s Lancashire Regiment 42nd Highlanders now the Black Watch (the Royal Highland Regiment) 44th Foot later the Essex Regiment and now the Royal Anglian Regiment 51st Light Infantry later the King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry and now the Light Infantry 52nd Light Infantry later the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and now the Royal Green Jackets 69th Foot later the Welsh Regiment and now the Royal Regiment of Wales 71st Highland Light Infantry now the Royal Highland Fusiliers 73rd Highlanders the Black Watch 79th Highlanders later the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders, then the Queen’s Own Highlanders and now the Highlanders 92nd Highlanders the Gordon Highlanders and now the Highlanders 95th Rifles later the Rifle Brigade, Royal Green Jackets - Rifles
There is a folk song about Waterloo that someone performed I beveled on the BBC Most proberbly a version of the 'traditional song' named 'Plains of Waterloo' mudcat.org lyrics: PLAINS of WATERLOO June Tabor - Plains of Waterloo - YouTube
18/06/1815 - The Battle of Waterloo http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/gallery/imageryofwar/exhibition/page1.html
http://adventuresinhistoryland.wordpress.com/2012/06/18/waterloo-men/ Waterloo Men: Last known surviving officer of Waterloo General Sir James Duff died at his residence Southampton aged 96 in 1891. The Waterloo Roll Call by name and regiment: http://archive.org/stream/waterloorollcall00daltuoft#page/n5/mode/2up
Ahhh... The memories. I prefer the version by Kate Rusby and Kathryn Roberts, even though I doubt that's the original. All the best Andreas
Just wanted to thank you for putting a link to my post here! I'd forgotten about it, but I saw a few visit reports in my dashboard last year, and I thought I would say I appreciate it! Josh.
