letter
Accession Number

NAM.1976-03-98-97

Description

Draft letter, undated. Townshend’s letter requests permission to be placed on Half Pay as he does not feel fit enough to be sent on service abroad, it also recounts his service with the Grenadier Guards e.g. Battle of Waterloo. Papers of Col Sir Horatio Townshend, Grenadier Guards, 1799-1842.

Events

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

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