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Waterloo soldier found under a car park!

Poor Uncle Tom · 2015-04-05 13:45:40

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/National/article1539950.ece A “UNIQUE” 200-year-old skeleton discovered beneath a car park at the battlefield of Waterloo has been identified as a hunchback Hanoverian trained in the East Sussex resort of Bexhill-on-Sea. The soldier has been identified as Friedrich Brandt,…

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http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/news/uk_news/National/article1539950.ece

A “UNIQUE” 200-year-old skeleton discovered beneath a car park at the battlefield of Waterloo has been identified as a hunchback Hanoverian trained in the East Sussex resort of Bexhill-on-Sea.

The soldier has been identified as Friedrich Brandt, 23, a member of the King’s German Legion of George III, killed by Napoleon’s troops with a musket ball between his ribs.

Dominique Bosquet, an archeologist working for the Walloon government in Belgium who supervised its recovery, said: “It is unique. No other complete skeleton has been retrieved [from Waterloo] in 200 years.”

Brandt’s remarkable story has been pieced together by Gareth Glover, 54, a military historian and former Royal Navy officer.

Brandt would be rejected for service by any modern army. The skeleton is to feature in a major exhibition to be opened in May in Waterloo.

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