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troops, and remained in hiding for hours, not daring to move. The cannonade having diminished she ventured towards the farm, but fled horror-stricken at the sight—the ground, as she expresses it, being like red mud, so drenched was it with blood. She ran across the fields and reached the Bois de Planchenoit, where she fell asleep, worn out by fatigue and excitement. At dusk she was awakened by the noise of horses’ hoofs, and saw a troop of cavalry, headed by a man of short stature mounted on a curveting grey horse. He was riding slowly on as if in a dream, looking straight ahead and paying no heed to what went on about him. The girl learnt on the same evening from her relatives, when she finally reached home, that the rider was Napoleon. Madame Givron is remarkably active, and is particularly proud of her eyesight, which, she declares, is as good as it was seventy-five years ago. When her daughter Marceline, who, as she says, is only seventy-two, sits down to sew, her mother threads the needles for her. The old lady has had seven children, and her descendants number ninety-two.”—_Morning Post._ ------------------ A CENTENARIAN. Commissary-Gen. Downs writes to the _Army and Navy Gazette_ in July, 1891, as follows:— “Samuel Gibson—an inmate of the Metropolitan Asylum, Caterham—is now in his 101st year. He enlisted about the year 1803 at Sanderage, county Armagh, as a boy in the 27th Regt., his father being at that time a private in the Monaghan militia. Young Gibson accompanied the Inniskillings to the Peninsula and also served with the regt. at Waterloo. He was discharged from the army soon after on a pension of one shilling per diem, which he afterwards commuted, receiving besides, he states, £74. He has been an inmate of Caterham Asylum for some years, and although unable to leave his bed he still enjoys a pipe of tobacco, which he indulges in frequently.” ------------------ INTERESTING SURVIVOR. “In the village of Rolvenden, in the Weald of Kent, there is living an old woman named Moon, who was present at the battles of Quatre Bras and Waterloo. Her father, a col.-sergt. of the 3rd batt. Rifle Brigade, served throughout the Peninsular war, and took part in the battles of Badajoz, Salamanca, and other conflicts. He died of wounds received at Waterloo some months after the battle and before he had received his pension. Mrs. Moon was born in the Peninsula, her mother doing work for the forces when operating there. Though Mrs. Moon is now infirm, her intellect is clear and her memory good.”—_Morning Post_, 27th March, 1899. NOTE BY THE EDITOR.—Mrs. Barbara Moon d. at Rolvenden in Oct., 1903. It was stated in an obituary notice that she was four years old at the time of the battle of Waterloo and rode in a waggon over the field on the evening of 18th June, 1815. ------------------ THE LAST BRITISH EYE-WITNESS OF WATERLOO. Elizabeth Watkins, of Norwich, born 31st Jan., 1810, at Beaminster, near Bridport. Her father, one Daniel Gale, was pressed into the King’s service just before Waterloo. Gale’s wife and child followed him to Brussels and were in the women’s camp near the field of Waterloo. The child remembers cutting up lint—saw many dead, and some stirring incidents of the battle. (_Notes and Queries_, 5th Dec., 1903). A portrait of Elizabeth Watkins recently appeared in _The Sphere_. ------------------ AN EYE-WITNESS OF WATERLOO. _From a Correspondent._ In a small cottage at the little village of Chapelle, within eye-shot of the meeting-place of Wellington and Blücher after the most tremendous and fateful struggle in the world’s history, there was living on June 18, 1815, a little girl, Thérèse Roland, thirteen years of age, who witnessed all that took place on that historic day. Eighty-nine years later she is still living there, a widow now, with her two sons of eighty and seventy-eight, herself a bowed and wrinkled old dame of 103 years. This aged peasant, with faculties still clear and memory unimpaired, is probably the only living witness of the death-blow dealt to all Napoleon’s hopes on that midsummer day, which moulded the future history of an entire continent, and altered the balance of power of the entire world. A representative of the _Patrie_ has recently visited the battlefield, and obtained from this interesting old character, now Mme. Dupuis, some reminiscences of much that happened that day. She says:— “As a little girl, stirred and fascinated by the long lines of horsemen, guns, and tired foot regiments passing our cottage, I stood at our door and served out water to the ‘beaux soldats.’ Afterwards I followed them to Waterloo. In the evening we heard the booming of great cannon, and from the windows I could see the clouds of smoke rising into the air like trees. I was in the mill, and the windows rattled. All night long we heard the tramp of silent men and the creaking, stumbling guns passing our doors. When I looked out next morning I saw wounded men lying by the roadside. In the distance I could hear a sound like a rough sea breaking against the rocks. There were clouds of smoke, and I saw men galloping, and masses of my brave soldiers moving hurriedly across the fields. Then the doctors came, and took out the bullets from the wounds of the soldiers.... The Prussians came by, and then the English, shouting their cries of victory. “Not far away soldiers were digging trenches in our fields to bury the dead. There were so many of them, so many of them”—and the old peasant covered her face with her hands as though to shut out the terrible picture. “I saw one woman of Gotarville cut off the fingers of a Prussian officer, sorely hurt but still living, to secure the jewelled rings that he wore. “At Planchenoit, a little further away, they tell me that the brave French were so beaten down by bayonet charges that the river ran with blood. Near the hill above a general was killed. “No; I did not see Napoleon, and I still regret it. Poor Napoleon!... We did not like the English or the Prussians.... The next day we knew that Napoleon’s power was broken, by the lines we heard the people singing,”—and raising herself in her chair, the tottering old dame sang in a feeble voice:— Les cannoniers bombardaient à feu et à flamme, Les cuirassiers, les gardes d’honneur, sont renversés, Bonaparte, enfin voilà ta fin. Il faut te rendre— Te voilà battu, convaincu, tu n’en peux plus! _Pall Mall Gazette._ 18th June, 1904. INDEX TO COMMISSIONED OFFICERS. Abercromby, Hon. A., 7, 33, 107 Acheson, Hon. Edward, 107 Acres, John, 185 Acton, Hen., 78 Adair, Robt., 97 Adam, F., 6, 26 Adams, Richard, 123 Adamson, Augustus F.F., 123 Adye, S.G., 209 Ainslie, Geo. S.H., 176 Ainsworth, Oliver, 164 Aird, Thos., 207 Aitkin, Wm., 207 Akenside, Wm., 123 Albemarle, Earl of. _See_ Keppel Alderson, John, 150 Alexander, Claude, 193 ——, Jas., 59, 250 Allen, Geo., 99 Allingham, John Delancy, 62 Allix, Chas., 97 Alstone, Jas., 116 Alten, C. Count, Lieut.-Gen., K.C.B., 3, 16 Alten, V. Count, Maj.-Gen., 3, 17 Ambrose, Jas., 233 Amos, J.W., 236 Anderson, Hen., 175 ——, Matthew, 169 ——, Robert, 245 ——, Wm., 71st Foot, 180 ——, ——, 1st Foot, 117 ——, ——, C., Rl. Art., 223 Andrews, Hen., 75 ——, Mathias, 140 Anglesey, Marquis of. _See_ Uxbridge, Earl of. Anson, Hon. Geo., 112 Anthony, Jas., 153 Archbold, John, 149 Arguimbau, Lawrence, 116 Armstrong, Abraham, 79 ——, Andrew, 99 ——, Archibald, 179 ——, John, 1st Foot, 116 ——, ——, 95th Rifles, 202 ——, W., 19th Light Dragoons, 3, 17 ——, ——, 6th Dragoons, 62 Arnold, Jas., 50 ——, Robt., 68 Ashton, John, 112 Askew, Hen., 97 Askey, Thos., 165 Austen, Hen., 212 Austin, Wm., 169 Babington, Ralph, 52 Bacon, Anthony, 68 ——, Cæsar, 93 Bagshaw, Cæsar, 198 Bailey, Morris Wm., 140 Baillie, Andrew, 140 Bain, Hen., 150 ——, Wm., 150 Baird, David, 112 ——, Wm., 243 Baker, Geo., 86 Baldwin, Geo., 123 ——, Robt., 179 Banks, Clement, 176 Banner, John, 93 Bant, Ric., 234 Barailler, Joseph, 179 ——, P., 149 Barclay, D., 7, 30, 97 Barlow, Geo. Ulrich, 175 Barnard, Sir A.F., K.C.B., 197 ——, Chas. Levyns, 58 Barnes, Sir Edw., 6, 29 Barnet, Chas. John, 112 Barnett, John, 180 ——, —— Hen., 153 Barnewell, Aylmer, 236 Barr, Geo., 145 Barra, J., 86 Barrailler, Joseph, 179 ——, P., 8, 38, 149 Barrett, Edw., 82 ——, J.C., 169 Barrington, Hon. S.S., 99 Barrs, Geo., 149 Barry, Wm., 154 Bartlett, Jas., 176 ——, Wm., 176 Barton, Alexander, 75 ——, Chambré, B., 48 ——, Wm., 98 Bathurst, Hon. T. Seymour, 99 Battersby, Geo., 52 Batty, Robt., 98 Baynes, Geo. M., 222 ——, H., 209 ——, T., 5, 22 Beachcroft, Saml., 123 Beamond, Saml., 48 Beane, Geo., 221 Beard, Thos., 233 Beardsley, Sam., 164 Beattie, Fredk., 65 Beauchamp, Ric., 86 Beaufoy, Mark, 107 Becher, Abel, 194 Beckwith, C., 8, 36, 197 ——, Wm., 86 Beere, Hen., 140 Belcher, Robt. Tresilian, 145 Bell, Wm., 209 Bellairs, Wm., 82 Belli, John Henry, 86 Belson, Sir Chas. P., K.C.B., 135 Bennett, Francis, 201 ——, Wm., 146 Bentinck, C.A.F., 7, 32, 107 Berger, John, 46 Berkeley, Sir G.H.F., K.C.B., 7, 30, 236 Bernard, Hon. H.B., 52 Bertie, Lindsey Jas., 75 Betty, John, 132 Biddulph, Theophilus, 62 Bingham, John, 233 Binney, Thos., 71 Birtwhistle, John, 146 Bishop, Peter, 153 Black, Geo., 7, 32, 239 ——, Jas., 245 ——, J.L., 116 ——, Saml., 62 Blackall, Gerald, 150 Blacklin, Ric., 117 Blackman, John Lucie, 107 Blackwood, Robt., 175 Blair, John, 165 Blakeman, Ric., 239 Blanckley, H., 7, 32, 128 Blane, Hugh Seymour, 113 Blathwayt, Geo. Wm., 93 Blennerhassett, Aldworth, 185 Blois, Chas., 55 Bloomfield, Hen. Keane, 243 ——, John, 209 Boase, John, 145 Boates, Henry Ellis, 50 Boldero, Hen., 123 ——, Lonsdale, 98 Bolton, A., 93 ——, John, 62 ——, Saml., 223 ——, Thos., 117 Booth, Wm., 82 Bott, Chas., 207 Bouchier, Jas., 71 Bouverie, Everard Wm., 50 Bowater, Edw., 112 Bowen, Edw. Cole, 153 ——, Robt., 107 Bowers, Chas. Robt., 78 ——, Mansell, 78 Bowlby, Edward, 120 ——, Joseph, 123 ——, Peter, 120 Bowles, Geo., 107 ——, John, 135 Boyce, John, 149 ——, Wm., 48 Boyd, Hygatt, 120 Boyle, Robt., 157 Boyse, Jaques, 145 ——, Shapland, 78 Bradford, Sir Hen. Hollis, 8, 35, 97 Bradley, (——), 48 Bramwell, John, 194 Brander, Jas., 157 ——, Thos. Coventry, 52 Brannan, Chas. Myler, 123 Brauns, A.C.G., 8, 39, 206 Breary, Christ. Spencer, 236 Brereton, Wm., 217 Breton, Jno. F., 216 Breymann, F., 7, 31 Brice, Alex. A., 128 Bridge, Geo. Dandridge, 185 Bridgeland, T., 135 Bridgeman, Hon. O., 2, 14, 98 Bridger, Jas. Paul, 75 Bringhurst, John Dorset, 52 Brisbane, Thos., 170 Broke, Sir Chas., 7, 34 Brome, Joseph, 248 Bromhead, Gonville, 239 Brook, Thos., 164 Brooke, Francis, 1st Dgn. Gds., 52 ——, ——, 4th Foot, 120 Brookes, Hen. Wm., 145 Broughton, Saml., 48 Brown, Alexander, 157 ——, Andrew, 189 ——, Evan M., 128 ——, Geo., 146 ——, Hen., 242 ——, John, 52 ——, Thos., 1st Foot, 98 ——, ——, 79th Foot, 189 Browne, Barton Parker, 71 ——, Donald, 185 ——, Eugene, 245 ——, Fielding, 153 ——, John, 120 ——, Hon. Michael, 153 ——, Thos. Gore, 248 ——, Hon. Wm., 169 ——, Wm. Fredk., 62 Brownrigg, David, 231 Bruce, Jas. R., 221 ——, Robt., 99 ——, Saml. Barwick, 231 ——, Wm., 189 Brugh, Adam, 161 Brunton, Ric., 8, 37