Wheelbarrow fells Waterloo hero

Just imagine: you have been through the horrors of the Battle of Waterloo in a regiment which suffered 217 casualties out of 396, and were wounded yourself, and then your career is ended by… a wheelbarrow.

This was the fate of Pte William Cardiff of the 6th or Inniskilling Dragoons, who, as a member of …

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