A Waterloo Man
March 3, 2015 - The Chairman in News & Blog Posts
I found myself going to fight at Bergen Op Zoom with the 33rd and just before we left I was promoted to Corporal which was not bad as I hadn’t been in the regiment that long. Any
way Bergen Op whatever was not a huge success. It was a fraught night attack and we sustained huge casualties including our Brigade Commander and our own 33rd’s Commanding Officer being wounded. I myself was wounded in the arm but I was better off than the 2 Serjeants and 26 rank and file who were killed. Nasty night it was and it didn’t seem very well organised. But I was lucky and I was told off to fill one of the serjeant’s vacancies.
The next time I was in action was on the that day 16th June when we were rushed to fill the gap at Quatre Bras. It was a fierce old fight and I was badly wounded in the head and fell by the roadside. There I lay for hours under the feet of the horses of the French Cavalry who were charging around me. Thank the Lord I was rescued and taken back to Antwerp. I was lucky to survive the day and claim to be a Waterloo man even though I was not actually at Waterloo but let me tell you Quatre Bras was just as bloody but there were fewer of the Frenchies and ourselves. Here is my medal which the good general now has and good luck to him. .
