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Corporal John Shaw of the 2nd Life Guards fighting French cuirassiers at the Battle of
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Corporal John Shaw of the 2nd Life Guards fighting French cuirassiers at the Battle of
Corporal John Shaw of the 2nd Life Guards fighting French cuirassiers at the Battle of Waterloo, 18 June 1815. A large man, he was an obvious target for the enemy, who surrounded him and fatally injured him. He was buried near the battlefield, but his remains were later repatriated by Sir Walter Scott, and the skull kept in his library at Abbotsford. A plaster cast of the skull is in the Household Cavalry Museum. Date: 1815
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