A description of the column in Shrewsbury, in honour of General Lord Hill: an account of his military actions, by Captain Moyle Sherer: and a brief memoir of his lordship
Shrewsbury: printed and sold by J. Watton, [183-]
8500.d.140(1), frontispiece

Several senior commanders in the Waterloo campaign are commemorated in striking monuments erected by family, tenants and admirers. Rowland Hill, Lord Hill of Almaraz and Hawkestone (1772–1842), commanded II Corps at Waterloo and led the final advance against the French centre. In later life he succeeded Wellington as Commander-in-Chief of the British Army. This monument in Shrewsbury, over 150 feet tall, was begun in 1814 and completed on the first anniversary of Waterloo in 1816 at a cost of just under £6,000. An adjacent cottage, of complementary Doric design, was also built by subscription. Hill himself chose the first occupant, Thomas Davies, his Orderly Sergeant at Waterloo, a deserving ‘Veteran Soldier, appointed to shew the Column’.