Image: 18 June 1815 – Waterloo – St Joseph's Church, Tablet Left, 10
Description: The Commemorative Tablets to the Victims of the Battle of Waterloo. Introduction. A 1816 etching ►(File:18 June 1815 – Waterloo – Saint Joseph's church, first commemorative tablets.jpg) shows a first two tablets, easily recognizable (albeit depicted oversize) : the one on the left is now ►(File:18 June 1815 – Waterloo – St Joseph's Church, Tablet Right, 1.jpg), and the one on the right is ►(File:18 June 1815 – Waterloo – St Joseph's Church, Tablet Left, 8.jpg). Both epitaphs are transcribed in full by Campbell (1817), being the "principal" among "some votive tablets" (those last ones not further documented). By 1824, a nave had been added to the Rotunda, as shown on an anonymous etching ►(File:18 June 1815 – Waterloo – Saint Joseph's church, nave, 1824.jpg) which depicts several tablets neatly lined up, but unidentifiable. By 1855 anew, two ailes had been added to the nave and the tablets, then numbering 27, were moved into these ailes. Their first comprehensive publication, by Tarlier & Wauters (1864), describes in-extenso 14 tablets on the left and 13 on the right. Since that description, the tablets have been reorganized ; furthermore, two have been replaced by new ones to incorporate more names, and an additional two Dutch tablets have joined the original set. The total is still 27, i.e. 14 on the left and 13 on the right. Today, the Tablets to the British and Dutch Victims are now poorly crammed in the corners of the ailes, some at ground level, all behind rows of chairs – pitifully. ► Left aisle, 10th tablet : Captains Neil Campbell, John Sinclair, John Cameron Lieutenants Donald Cameron, Duncan, MacPherson, John Kynock, John Rowling, Ewen Kennedy And Nine Non-Commissioned Officers and seventy five privates of the 79th Regt of Highlanders (...) Victims of the napoléonic régime.
Title: 18 June 1815 – Waterloo – St Joseph's Church, Tablet Left, 10
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