"Lest you forget..." Topic

For those of us who can remember this being brought home and "got hooked" by it.
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Waterloo Podcast has a special video today on Capt Mercer's troops. Much more visual of the battle.
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My mom made a pair of decoupage pieces out of that LIFE article (the Iron Duke and the Old Guard's final square) which still hang on my game-room wall.

I remember it well! I had graduated from high school that May. I clipped the illustrations to go with the ones I saved from LIFE's Civil War centenial and WWI editions. Great magazine.

Thank you for posting this – very interesting. A bit before my time, I feel.

The HLI bagpiper has the oddest looking set of pipes I've seen, but apart from that, the illustrations are excellent.

Loved the adds!
Lee Marvin and Black label beer, good times indeed.

I still have my copy….

I have a large copy of Lady Butler's painting framed and hanging in living room!

Jim

@ Col Campbell

The man leading that charge was born just outside of Fort Ticonderoga on the first anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. His parents were (Regimental) Sergeant Major Anderson of the 21st Foot and his wife. For reasons not quite clear, some years later, the CO of the 21st – James Inglis Hamilton – adopted the boy (not sure what happened to the parents, but the dad definitely returned to Scotland), purchased him a commission in the Royal Scots Greys in time for him to serve in the 1795 campaign in the Low Countries, and he ended up in command of the regiment during their only other foray outside of the British Isles during these wars, in 1815.