Jane Gamble (2)

Fragment of Hougoumont collected by Jane Catherine Gamble (1810–1885)
GCPP Gamble 3/17
Courtesy of the Mistress and Fellows, Girton College, Cambridge

Like many visitors to the site in the first years after the battle, Gamble was able to salvage relics from the field: the wrapper of this fragment of charcoal indicates that it came from Hougoumont.

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