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Letter from Lieutenant Standish O’Grady to his father the 1st Viscount Guillamore, 26 April 1815
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Accession Number

NAM.1990-08-140-23

Description

Letter from Lt Col Standish O’Grady to his father the 1st Viscount Guillamore., dated Haeslebeke near Courtray, 26 Apr 1815. In this letter O’Grady relates that despite further delays, his regiment has at last made it to Europe, arriving at Ostend on the 21st and then marched to their current location via Bruges and Ghent. He comments that it is good cavalry country and that the inhabitants were welcoming. Typed transcript in separate folder. From a collection of 45 letters associated with Lt Col Standish O’Grady, later 2nd Viscount Guillamore 1813-1830. These letters include those written whilst serving as a Lieutenant with the 7th Light Dragoons in the Peninsular War and at Waterloo, 1815-1830. With manuscript and typescript transcripts. Associated with the Peninsular War (1808-1814) and Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815).

Campaigns

Napoleonic Wars (1803-1815)

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