[2]. “Sergeant Weir of the Scots Greys was pay-sergt. of his troop, and as such might have been excused serving in action, and perhaps he should not have been forward; but, on such a day as Waterloo, he requested to be allowed to charge with the regt. In one of the charges he fell mortally wounded, and was left on the field. Corporal Scott of the same regt. (who lost a leg) asserts that when the field was searched for the wounded and slain, the body of Sergt. Weir was found with his name written on his forehead by his own hand, dipped in his own blood. This, his comrade said, he was supposed to have done that his body might be found and known, and that it might not be imagined he had disappeared with the money of the troop. John Weir joined the Greys about 1798, and was a native of Mauchline, Ayrshire.”—Copied from a MS. in possession of the regt., and communicated by Capt. G. Tancred.
[3]. The oldest soldier in the Greys at Waterloo. Served at Dunkirk under the Duke of York. D. 1852. His brother was aftds. a capt. in the same regt.
6th Dragoons.
| Troop Sergt.-Maj. Wm. Seney. | |
| ” ” John Laws. | |
| [1] | ” ” Matthew Marshall, W. |
| Sergt. Hugh MʻMahon. | |
| ” Johnston Marlow. | |
| Private Wm. Penfold. | |
| ” Robert Potters. | |
| [2] | ” Jeremiah Brown. |
[1]. “The Enniskilleners charged in line when Marshall’s squadron dashed into the thickest of the enemy’s phalanx, and were cut off from the other troops of the regt. Marshall, while sabreing a cuirassier on his right, had his bridle-arm broken by a stroke from his enemy on his left, and had not proceeded much further when he was beset by another crowd of French cavalry and hurled from his horse by a lance which penetrated his side. While he was falling he received a heavy blow across the body, and another which broke his right thigh. He lay unconscious except when goaded into sensibility by the hoofs of the enemy’s horses passing over his mangled body. The ground afterwards becoming somewhat clear he espied a horse without any rider, towards which he crawled, and was about to mount, when a French trooper galloping up cut him down in the midst of his hopes, inflicting several severe wounds on his body. This part of the field being again occupied by the French, a French artilleryman made Marshall’s body a resting-place for his foot while he rammed his gun. For two days and three nights Marshall remained on the field with 19 lance and sabre wounds. On the regt. returning home he was discharged with 2s. per day. Resided at Belfast, where he was much respected. D. there, 28th Sept., 1825.”—Scots’ Magazine.
[2]. Born at Enniskillen 14th March, 1792. Fought at Waterloo and in the Kaffir, Sepoy, and Maori wars. Living at Melbourne, Australia, in 1891.
7th Hussars.
Sergt.-Maj. Edward Cotton.