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Originally Posted by janwhin
One Waterloo local man who fell at Waterloo was the uncle of Grace Darling. The Alnwick Mercury of 26 August 1882 records the passing of his sister at Beadnell:
"In our obituary column of this week is recorded the death at Beadnell of Mrs Mary Air, at the advanced age of 100 years. Deceased's maiden name was Mary Reed Horsley, and she was aunt to the heroine of the Farne Islands, Grace Horsley Darling.
Her brother Alexander Horsley,a native of Bamburgh, was a soldier and served throughout the whole of the Peninsular War. In 1810 he was billeted with a recruiting party at the Crown Inn, Alnwick, and was ultimately amongst those who fell at the Battle of Waterloo."
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Nice find Janwhin. I had a go at trying to find locals that served at Waterloo in the newspaper database, expecting any obituary of a Waterloo vet to certainly mention the battle but found nothing. Nevertheless I still think we are only scratching the surface regarding vets of the Peninsular wars generally; there will be many more with all documentary evidence lost.