‘Omnium Gatherum’ [Michael Egerton]
Here and there over the water: being cullings in a trip to the Netherlands…
London: George Hunt, 1825
Harley-Mason.b.135, plate XXII

Egerton published four plates of drawings of memorial tablets placed in the church of Waterloo village, three miles from the battlefield. Usually only commissioned officers are named individually on these monuments, with the losses of other ranks, where noted, being given in figures. Many of the memorials were subscribed for by the surviving officers of the regiments concerned, although some were placed by the families of the dead. Monuments depicted on Egerton’s plate XXII indicate the varying fates of the bodies: Major Dorset Binghurst of the 1st King’s Dragoon Guards was ‘buried on the spot where he fell, in the West Entrance of the Farm of La Haye Sainte’, whereas the remains of the Honourable Frederick Howard, the son of the Earl of Carlisle, were repatriated to the family mausoleum at Castle Howard in Yorkshire. The plate reproduces Dutch and Belgian memorials as well as British.

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