The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1880-07-15
THE ANNIVERSARY OF WATER
LOO.
Catalogue Of the Survivors and Reflections Upon
that Great Battle.
CToudon Talaorapb Trno "a
London Telegraph, June 1911

SNAN %l
1t may not be without use after having
witnessed the sixty fifth recurrence of
one of the most glorious dates in our
national history-for yesterday was the
anniversary of Waterloo-to bear in
mind the scant schedule Of few-the
very few-survivors of the " first and
last Of fields" the King making vic
tory" of the 18th of June, 1915. But
a few lines suffice to record the names
and rank Of those gallant officers who
were at Hougoumout, at the Haye Sainte
and on the plateau Of MontS t Jean and
who are yet alive to tell how that famous
field was won. All honor, then, to Field
Marshall Sir C. Yorke, G.. c. B, Colonel
Commandant of the Rifle Brigade, who
at Waterloo was Captain of the Forty.
fourth Foot; General Sir T. Reed, G, c.
B., Colonel of the Forty.fourth Foot,
who was Lieutenant Of the Twelfth Light
Dragons; General Lord Rokeby, G. c.
B., Colonel of the Scots Guards, who
was Lieutenant of the Third Foot (Scots)
Guards; General G.. Macdonald, Colonel
of the Sixteenth Foot, who was Lieu>
tenant of the Twenty>seventh Foot;
General G. Whichcote, who was Lieu.
tenant or the Thitty>second Foot; Gen.
eral J. A. Butler, who was Lieutenant in
the Grenadier Guards; General the Earl
of Albemarle, who was Ensign in the
Fourteenth Foot General Sir John
Bloomfield, G. c. B., Colonel Comman-
dant of the Royal Horse Artillery, who
was first Lieutenant; General 7. c.
Smith, who was Ensign in the Twenty
seventh Regiment; Captain Dugald
Macfarlane, who was a Lieutenant in
the Rifle Brigade; Captain w, Harris,
who was a Lieutenant in the Sixteenth
Light Dragons; Lieutenant BramN
well, who was Ensign in the Ninety.sec-
ond Foot, Lieutenant A. Gardner, who
was Lieutenant in the Twenty seventh
Foot; Lieutenant James Robinson, who
was Lieutenant in the Thirty>second
Foot; Assistant Surgeon George Evers,
and Quartermaster Luke Hardy, who
both served in the ranks of the Grenas
der Guards. 1t is remarkable that in
this list of officers there should not be
remaining a single Life Guardsman,
while of officers of cavalry of the line
only two survive. There are no HusN
sars, no Lancers, no Dragon Guards,
no foot artillerymen and no engineers
and it is equally curious to note that in
the course of sixty FIVE years several of
lcers have only gained a 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
Tune 1880. Marshals and Field Marshals
have come and gone. Wars upon wars
have succeeded one another; India,
| China and the Crimea have yielded a
rich harvest OF glory; the British army
has fought from New Zealand to Zulu
land, from New Orleans to Pekin; yet
these two gentlemen have not risen be-
yond the rank of subalterns. They were
wounded, perhaps, at Waterloo and
went Immediately on half pay. 1t is a
very easy thing in this world to be COM
pletely forgotten if a man will only give
his mind to keeping himself quiet and
to forget that he has a 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 eighty four years of age and who
Joined the Dukes army in the PeninN
sula in 1872, might well have been at
Waterloo, but contrary fate decreed that
in the momentous IS he should be serv
ing in the inglorious American campaign
and assisting at the sack of Washing
ton. Mr.. Geig, however, has written in
the "Stories of Waterloo" hearsay, as
they are, the best narrative of the 18th
of June next to hat of the eye witness,
Colonel Basil Jackson, who as a young
lieutenant was the aid.de>camp of the
gallant Sir William de Lancy, who was
killed early in the action. Yet is there
another story Of Waterloo, which, al>
though the rention therein Of the en-
gagement itself does not extend beyond
a dozen lines, brings home to us with
astonishing force and directness the ems
thusiasm 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 wains, heaped
high with wounded 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 lettess hold their sway,
will the Waterloo chapters in VANITY
Fair" by William Makepeace Thackeray
| be forgotten,