Note 6 — HISTORICAL RECORD

Lieut.-Colonel Robert John Coghlan was a most distinguished and gallant officer, and highly respected and beloved by the Sixty-first, who cherished the memory of his exalted virtues w peculiar veneration. The regimental record shows the number of times he led the corps to battle and to victory, and the honorary distinctions he had acquired. The Duke of Wellington directed his remains to be removed from the grave in which they had been hastily laid, on the field of battle, and honored with a public funeral himself attending to pay the last tribute of respect to departed valour. A marble slab, placed by his brother officers in the Protestant churchyard of Toulouse, marks the spot where the remains of this gallant officer are deposited.