A SURVIVOR OF WATERLOO.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVI, Issue 9452, 24 August 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

A SURVIVOR OF WATERLOO.

A pretty little incident has come to light in connection with that dashing and accomplished soldier, Colonel Barton Parker Browne—one of the last survivors of Waterloo—whose death occurred last week. It appears (says the Daily Telegraph) that a few months ago the Queen was reminded that Colonel Browne was one of the heroes of that famous field, and Her Majesty, through Sir Henry Ponsonby, sent him the Jubilee Medal and a kind letter of congratulation. This gracious act was a vast gratification for the old man. On the same occasion the Duke of Cambridge also wrote very generously. Every year his friends at Bath, when June IS came round, used to pour in upon him bouquets in honour of the day. This year he died two days before the great anniversary, and funeral wreaths followed the flowers of triumph. At Waterloo he served with the 11th Light Dragoons, now the 11th Hussars, and his sabretache was shot through. With the same regiment, under Lord Cornbermere, he took a prominent part in the storming of Bhurtpore. Society at Bath, where he was a favourite, knew him as a cool and quiet man, but he is said to have been a very Rupert in action, and was acknowledged to be in his day one of the finest swordsmen in the British army. Colonel Barton Browne's family have furnished soldiers for six, if not seven, generations. He was born in March 10, 1795, and had completed his ninety-first year. Four officers yet remain to tell their own tale of Waterloo—the Earl of Alberinarle, General Whichcote, Colonel W. Hewett, and Major Basil Jackson.