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The Waterloo Roll Call

Note 2 — PART IV. A FEW WATERLOO HEROES.

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Served at Salamanca in a dragoon regt. Aftds. exchanged to 1st D.G. as sergt., and was present at Waterloo. Bought his discharge after 17 years’ service, and recd. a pens. of 6d. a day for two years! He was a native of Tipperary, but spent the latter part of his life at Penrith, where he was a well-known figure, being “29 stone in weight, 6 feet 2 inches in height, and 2 feet 4 inches across the shoulders.” D., at Penrith, in 1867, aged 80.

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