Note 5 — REGIMENTAL LISTS.

Son of John Garland, of Dorchester. Was desperately wounded at Waterloo. After the battle he was carried to Brussels, and after months of suffering was able to return to Dorchester. He was not then expected to recover, and by some error his death was reported in the papers in the autumn of 1816. Here is the first obituary notice in the Gentleman’s Magazine:—“At his father’s, Dorchester, Capt. John Garland, 73rd Foot. He was in most of the Peninsular battles, and was desperately wounded at Waterloo at the close of the action, only two men of his company being then left, and was confined at Brussels until his recent return to England.” 187But John Garland did not die in 1816, and lived to become a bt. maj. on unattached list in 1825, and a bt. lt.-col. in 1838. His second obituary notice is given in the Annual Register for 1851:—“Jan. 17. At Lille, Lt.-Col. John Garland, K.H., late of Quatre Bras Cottage, Dorchester, who was severely wounded at Waterloo.”