Waterloo
OTHER GRAVE-STONES

In order to continue the nomenclature of the monuments which were erected in this vast necropolis, we shall name two grave-stones which are found in the orchard of the farm of Hougoumont one of them being devoted to John Lucie Blackman, captain of the Coldstream Guards, the other one to Edward Cotton, the author of "La voix de Waterloo" who died in 1849.

In the garden of the ancient inn "the White Horse" (Le Cheval Blanc) at Mont-Saint-Jean in front of the "Hôtel des Colonnes" where Victor Hugo lived, stands a monument erected in memory of Major Arthur Rowley Heyland of the British infantry.

Behind the house which was formerly the Blocry inn at Joli-Bois, stands a tomb of blue stone, containing the remains of lieutenant-colonel Stables, commander of the English Guard grenadiers.

The tomb of lieutenant-colonel Fitz Gerald of the English Guards may also be seen in the cemetery of Waterloo.

On the 22nd of September 1912, an ossuary was inaugurated in the park of the Caillou farm, giving at last a grave to the glorious bones which were often turned out by the ploughshare.
 

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