Absolutely fascinating… Thank you everyone. And all I asked for was a spelling verification.
I have been researching Hougoumont for about 15 years, and stories like this just keep ‘popping up’ from nowhere, like daisies on a freshly cut lawn.
When I was on active service and on manoeuvres, I was always attached to Left Flank, the 2nd Battalion Scots Guards. (the Light Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards) Hence my interest in a scapegoat Courts-Martial for an incident, during this operation in the cidery room. The 105-minute screenplay is finished, and I have a Netflix Producer who wants it. However, I prefer to publish the 8-episode streamer, as it holds all the finer details…, lol…, like a needle maker. It’s unfortunate that feature had to be slashed. Pity !
The non-fiction story behind Good and Hanrott concerns a Captain by the name of George Evelyn. Evelyn was the Company Commander at Quatre-Bras two days earlier. Following the retreat to Waterloo, he relinquished command to Lt. Col. Charles Dashwood, who was wounded alongside Lt. Col. Henry Wyndham. (who would develop PTSD, and never close another door for the remainder of his life)
That, plus the death of another Lieutenant Colonel William Milne Grenadier Guards…, the affair needed a cover-up by the infamous Lt. Col. James Macdonell. (Coldstream)
Anyway, during the second breach of the Northgate, (10-yards away from Hanrott in the cidery room) Evelyn was wounded in the arm. Following the fascinating but unsuccessful breach by the French, Evelyn’s servant whisked him off to the surgery.
And here’s another one of those ‘pop-up’ discoveries… To get access to the arm, it was probably Hanrott who cut away the sleeve then threw it in a corner. (because John Ward was in Bruxelles
Samuel Good then cleaned the wound, and Hanrott would have passed him the needle. (Oh My Goodness…, who needs a crystal ball with friends like you on RootsChat ?)
And its not finished. Evelyns’ buttons and gold braid was unearthed by Waterloo Uncovered in 2022.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_J4tRwCyaU Lol…, little did Phill know that the Scots Guards well outnumbered the Coldstream at Hougoumont. (the Coldstream held the garden, not the buildings)
In the meantime, if you know of a Producer who wants an 8-episide streamer…, just let me know.
LOGLINE
A mass Courts-Martial of 34 innocent Waterloo soldiers.
A miscarriage of justice shrouded in secrecy for over two hundred years,
unveils a scandal that will reshape the Waterloo legacy for the Brigade of Guards.
