Manuscript letter dated ‘In Camp nr Belonge (sic) Paris, 1 Sep 1815’, from Pte Richard Armstrong, 51st (2nd Yorkshire, West Riding) Regiment of Foot (Light Infantry), to his mother and sister at Kingston-upon-Thames.

This was Armstrong’s first letter home since the Battle of Waterloo. Largely taken up with the death of his friend Sgt Edward Serjeant, who died from illness contracted around the time of the battle. 

Associated with the Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (1815).