Source: Leeds Intelligencer
Date: 1862 03 08
Subject: Death of a Waterloo hero at Pudsey
Another of those veterans who fought for their country on the ever memorable
field of Waterloo has passed from among us. Henry Wilcock, a native
of Pudsey, and the last but one of that township who fought on the plains
of waterloo, has at the age of 73 succumbed to the immutable laws of
mortality; he expired, after a few hours illness, on Wednesday the 26th
ult., and his remains were conveyed to their last resting place on Friday
afternoon. Respect was paid to his memory by the other Waterloo hero
(Varley), who, along with another veteran, followed him to his grave.
The deceased entered the militia in the year 1807, and volunteered,
May 4th 1812, into the 1st battalion Grenadier Guards. He went through
Spain and Portugal with Wellington and was at the battles of Nive and
Nivelle; he was engaged on the 16th June 1815 and was slightly wounded
by a spent ball at Waterloo on the 18th, while engaged in the defence
of the Chateau of Hougoumont. He was also one of those who were chosen
from the Guards, as the best and steadiest men, to form the Duke of
Wellington's guard in Paris in 1815. He was discharged from the army
on the 4th May 1819, without a pension. In 1854 he received a grant
of 6d a day, and in december last he received a second grant of an additional
3d a day
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