18th Hussars.
John Collins.
Appointed quartermaster 12th June, 1817. H. p. 1821.
Sergt. James Robert Cruess.
Served in Capt. Ellis’s troop at Waterloo. Promoted Ensign 92nd Regt. 11th Jan., 1816. H. p. 37th Regt., 22nd Jan., 1816. Living 1824.
1st Foot Guards.
Sergt. John Payne.
Afterwards Capt. J. Payne, late quartermaster of the Grenadier Guards. Served in Sicily in 1806–7 and in Spain in 1808–9, and was present in several actions, including Corunna. He was also at Walcheren. He served in the campaigns of 1812 to 1815, and was present at the actions in the Pyrenees, capture of San Sebastian, passage of the Bidassoa, Nive, Nivelle, investment of Bayonne, Quatre Bras, and Waterloo. He was commissioned as a quartermaster the 31st Aug., 1815, and retd. with the rank of capt. in Dec., 1855. Living 1876. The following description of the square of the Grenadier Guards during the afternoon of Waterloo day is by Capt. Gronow of that regt., and is certainly worthy of remembrance, exhibiting as it does the desperate heroism of the British resistance:—