The last survivors of Waterloo
January 4, 2017 - The Chairman in News & Blog Posts, Chairman's Blog
We are now back from Christmas leave. Serjeant Gibson and I spent some time examining some of the 200 items on our website. This remarkable photograph taken on Waterloo Day in 1880 caught our eye.
Until recently the website entry on this http://ageofrevolution.org/200-objects/page/8/ shows the fourth man to be Robert Horton, in fact it is Robert Norton and to be sure he is the one sitting as he does not wear a Waterloo Medal.
The authority for this correction is the Royal Collection and their entry https://www.royalcollection.org.uk/collection/themes/exhibitions/waterloo-at-windsor/windsor-castle/last-survivors-of-waterloo-at-the-royal-hospital-chelsea. However this mentions that Norton went on to Waterloo which he cant have done as the 34th Foot were not present at the battle.
