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18 June 1815 – Waterloo – St Joseph's Church, Left Aisle, Tablet #2.

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English: The Commemorative Tablets to the Victims of the Battle of Waterloo.

Introduction.
A 1816 etching ►(File:18 June 1815 – Waterloo – Saint Joseph's church, first commemorative tablets.jpg) shows a first two tablets, easily recognizable (albeit depicted oversize) : the one on the left is now ►(File:18 June 1815 – Waterloo – St Joseph's Church, Tablet Right, 1.jpg), and the one on the right is ►(File:18 June 1815 – Waterloo – St Joseph's Church, Tablet Left, 8.jpg). Both epitaphs are transcribed in full by Campbell (1817), being the "principal" among "some votive tablets" (those last ones not further documented).
By 1824, a nave had been added to the Rotunda, as shown on an anonymous etching ►(File:18 June 1815 – Waterloo – Saint Joseph's church, nave, 1824.jpg) which depicts several tablets neatly lined up, but unidentifiable.
By 1855 anew, two ailes had been added to the nave and the tablets, then numbering 27, were moved into these ailes. Their first comprehensive publication, by Tarlier & Wauters (1864), describes in-extenso 14 tablets on the left and 13 on the right.
Since that description, the tablets have been reorganized ; furthermore, two have been replaced by new ones to incorporate more names, and an additional two Dutch tablets have joined the original set. The total is still 27, i.e. 14 on the left and 13 on the right.

Today, the Tablets to the British and Dutch Victims are now poorly crammed in the corners of the ailes, some at ground level, all behind rows of chairs – pitifully.

► Left aisle, 2nd tablet :
Sacred To the Memory of ALEXANDER HAY Esquire of NUNRAW, Cornet in the 16th Light Dragoons,
aged 18 years,
Who fell gloriously in the memorable Battle of WATERLOO June 18th 1815.
O dolor, atque decus magnum !
 Hæc te prima dies bello dedit, hæc eadem aufert ! –– (Æneis, Liber X, 507-8)

Victim of the napoléonic régime.
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Furthermore : "He had obtained a commission in his brother William’s old regiment, the 16th Light Dragoons. William accompanied him to Belgium to introduce him to his brother officers. Alexander was killed in the last charge of the day, and although his brother spent days searching for the body, it was never recovered." (Source : [1], endnote 26.)

Campbell, Charles : The Traveller's Complete Guide through Belgium & Holland, 1817, 73-74.
Tarlier, Jules ; Wauters, Alphonse : Géographie et histoire des communes belges, Tome 1, Province de Brabant, Canton de Nivelles, Novembre 1864, 87-89 : #14 on the right.

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