The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1880-07-13
THE ANNIVERSARY OF WATER
Zoo,
Catalogue os shs suxvisors and Rsfec-
tions Upon That Great Battle.

1t may not be without use after having
Witnessed the sixty fifth recurrence of one
of the most glorious dates 10 our national
histery-fer yesterday was the aDniver~
sary of Waterioo-to bear in mind the
scant schedule of the few-the very few
survivors of the FIRST and last of fields, +"
the king making victory Of the. 18th Of
June. 1919. But a few. lines suffice to
record the names and rank of thoaes gal
LIANT officers who were at Hougoumant. at
the Have Sainte and on the plateau of
Mont st. Jean, and who are yet alive to
tell how that famous field was won All
honor, then. to Field Marshall Sir C
Yorke, @ B., COLONEL commandant of
the rifle brigade, who at Waterloo was
captain of the Forty fourth foot; Gan Sir
L Reed, 1t q B., colonel Of the Forty
fourth foot. who was lieutenant of the
Twelfth light dragons: Gen Lord Rekeby.
g G B.. colonel of the Scots Guards, who
was lieutenant OF the Third foot (Seo,s(
Guards Gen G. Macdonald, colonel Of the
Sixteenth foot. who was lieutenant of the
Twenty seventh foot; Gen q Whichcote,
who was. lieutenant of the Thirty second
foot; Gen j A Butler, who was lieutenant
in the -Grenadier Guards; General the
Earl of Albemarle, who was ensign 10 the
Fourteenth foot; Gen Sir John Bloom
6eld, G g B.. Col commandant of the royal
horse artillery, who was first lieutenant;
Gen T G Smith. who was ensign of the
Twenty seventh regiment; Capt. Dugald
Macfariane. who was lieu
tenant IN the Rife brigade; Capt. w
teenth light dragons; Lieut. j BramwelI,
who was ensign in the Ninety second foot;
Lieut. A Gardner. who was lieufepaut in
the Twenty-seventh foot; Lieut. James
Robinson, who was lieutenant in the
Thirty~secend foot; Assistant Surgeon
Geo Evers, hate of the Fourteenth foot;
and Quartermaster Luke Hardy, who both
served in the franks of the Grenadier
guards, 1t is remarkable that in this list
of officers there should not be remaining
single Lite Guardsman, while Of officers
Of cavalry of the line only two survive.
There are no Hussars, no Lancer, no Ora
COON guards, no foot srtilierymen and no
engineers. and it is equally curious to note
that in the course of sixty-fve years sew
eral officers have only gained single step
in rank from lieutenant to captain, or from
ensign to lieutenant. Two gentlemen
who were lieutenants on the 18th Of June,
1915. were still lieutenants on the 18th OF
June: 1880. Marshals aud field
marshais have come and gone. Wars
India, China and the Crimes have yielded
a rich harvest of glory. the British army
has fought from New Zealand to Hululand
from New Orleans TO Pepin; yet these
two gentlemen have not risen beyond the
rank of subalterns, They were wounded
perhaps, at Waterloo, and went imme-
diately on half pay. 1t is very easy
thing 10 this world to be completely for
gotten, if man will only give his nind to
keeping himself quiet, and to forget that
he has q trumpet of his own and the
capacity to blow it. The venerable retired
chaplain general of the army, the ReV. G.
r. Gleig, who is now 81 years OF age,
and who joined the dukes army In the
Peninsula in 1912, might well have been
at Waterloo. but the contrary fate decreed
that in the momentous Is he should be
serving in the inglorious American cam
paign and assisting at the sack OF Wash.
ington. Mr.. Gleig, however, has written
in the Stories of Waterloo, hearsay as
they are, the best narrative of the 18th of
j une, next to that of the eye witness, Col
Basil Jackson, who, as . young lieutenant,
was the ide-de-camp OF the gallant Sir
William de Lancy. who was killed early in
the action. Yet is there another story Of
Waterloo, which. although the mention
therein OF the engagement itself, does not
extend beyond dozen lines, brings home
20 us with astonishing force and dlrectness
the enthusiasm and the excitement. the
hopes and the fears. the exultation and
the anguish of those who were indeed not
actual spectators of the fight. but who
heard during the whole of that awful
Sunday the thunder of the cannon, and who
saw the strawlaid weins heaped high with
men. pass through the streets
of Brussels. Not while the memory of
British valor and endurance remains in the
heart of the nation, not while English letters
hold their sway, will the Waterloo chapters
in " anity Fair" by William Makepeace
be forgotten.