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Iron service field scabbard for Infantry Officer's Pattern 1796 sword; carried by Ens C Simpson, 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards, nd. Ens Simpson was killed at 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. Associated with Hougoumont, Napoleonic Wars, Waterloo (1815).

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