HERO OF WATERLOO
RE-BURIAL AT EDINBURGH LONDON, March 30. At dawn to-day the remains of Ensign Charles Ewart, the Royal Scots Grey hero at the battlel of Waterloo, will be exhumed from the yard of a Salf'ord warehouse and transferred, with full military honours, to Edinburgh Castle. Ewart, single-handed, captured the banner of the 45th French Regiment at Waterloo. He died in 1846 aged 77, and was buried in the yard of the Swedenborgian church, in Irwell street, Salford, which has since been converted into a warehouse. The long search for his grave ended recently. A granite memorial wi.ll be erected in Edinburgh.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19622, 4 May 1938, Page 11
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