NAM.2004-01-122-1

Double-coiled key bugle associated with Ensign C Simpson, 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards, killed at Waterloo, 18 June 1815. Brass with six, flat round keys mounted in saddles (two missing and one broken). Remains of ivory mouthpiece inside receiver. Nominal pitch: 4-foot C or 4-1/2-foot B-flat. Dark green satin ribbon attached at the distal bows. Associated with Hougoumont, Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (1815). Simpson was in No 4 Company, and as joint Ensign of the company should have been carrying one of the Regiment’s colours at Waterloo. He was killed by a cannonball. Ensign Simpson would not have been playing this instrument at the battle.

Waterloo, Battle of, 1815 (Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo 1815)