Waterloo,
Jasper Church, 2nd. Reg. Life Guards,
Original clip and straight bar suspension.
Enl. 1804 from Minsterworth in Gloucester.
Discharged due to and pension record states ‘paralytic affection, states that he served in Peninsula & France 2 1/2 years and that he was wounded in the right hand at Waterloo. He is a single man.’
Most heavily engaged. The 2nd suffered significantly more severely than any other cavalry regiment losing a little over two thirds in killed, wounded and missing. Records would indicate 155 killed, wounded and missing from some 2230 present. That more were killed than wounded evidences the desperate close combat they found themselves in .
Died 22 October 1838, University College Hospital. Surgeon records now online states disease of the ankle following an earlier amputation below the knee following in a blow to his toe ‘that he didn’t take much notice of at the time’. Presumably today sespis.
