Macabre Find
April 9, 2015 - The Chairman in News & Blog Posts, Conversations with the General
Archaeologists have made an interesting find in 2012. A skeleton was found during the excavation on the battlefield when building a new Car Park adjacent to the Mound. There was much speculation as to the identity of the man whose right rib cage was still holding a musket ball, see the attached photo. In the intervening years some clever detective work by Gareth Glover has almost certainly identified the man as Friedrich Brandt of the King’s German Legion. Altogether a most fascinating find. Serjeant John Gibson of the 33rd was most interested in this subject but could not claim to have been near enough. Of course he was wounded himself two days before at Quatre Bras.
