Note 7 — REGIMENTAL LISTS.
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This officer had his head taken off by a cannon ball in the afternoon of Waterloo Day, when standing near the colours. “There goes my best friend,” exclaimed a private of Capt. Fisher’s company. “I will be as good a friend to you,” said the subaltern, who immediately took the deceased’s place in the square. This produced a grim laugh among the men, as they knew what the subaltern did not—that the private had spoken ironically, for he was an old offender, and had constantly been punished by Capt. Fisher.—(Autobiography of Sergt. W. Lawrence.)