Thus, for example, to the individual courage of Lord Saltoun and Charley
Ellis, who commanded the light companies, was mainly owing our success
at Huguemont. The same may be said of Needham, Percival, Erskine, Grant,
Vyner, Buckley, Master, and young Algernon Greville, who at that time
could not have been more than seventeen years old. Excepting Percival,
whose jaws were torn away by a grape-shot, everyone of these heroes
miraculously escaped.

I do not wish, in making these observations, to detract from the bravery
and skill of officers whose names have already been mentioned in official
despatches, but I think it only just that the services of those I have
particularized should not be forgotten by one of their companions in arms.


BYNG WITH HIS BRIGADE AT WATERLOO


No individual officer more distinguished himself than did General Byng
at the battle of Waterloo. In the early part of the day he was seen
at Huguemont, leading his men in the thick of the fight; later he was
with the battalion in square, where his presence animated to the utmost
enthusiasm both officers and men. It is difficult to imagine how this
courageous man passed through such innumerable dangers from shot and
shell without receiving a single wound. I must also mention some other
instances of courage and devotion in officers belonging to this brigade;
for instance, it was Colonel MacDonell, a man of colossal stature, with
Hesketh, Bowes, Tom Sowerby, and Hugh Seymour, who commanded from the
inside the Chateau of Huguemont. When the French had taken possession
of the orchard, they made a rush at the principal door of the chateau,