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English: Monument erected in memory of Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Alexander Gordon (1786–1815), aide-de-camp to the Duke of Wellington and mortally wounded at the very end of the victorious Battle of Waterloo, 18 June 1815.

So deeply regretted was Alexander Gordon that when Wellington’s niece Lady Burghersh painted her uncle in 1839 absorbed by the Waterloo Dispatch, her picture alluded to Gordon lying dead on Wellington's bed. While Gordon’s body is not shown, in the image, we see two officers mourn him in the en-suite room : ►(File:18 June 1815 – Victory at Waterloo – The Waterloo Despatch.jpg).

Sir Alexander Gordon rests in the crypt of the British Waterloo Campaign Memorial inaugurated in 1890 : ►(File:18 June 1815 – Victory at Waterloo – British Waterloo Campaign Memorial, crypt, tomb right, 7.jpg).
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Location : along road N.5, at (50.6796, 4.4119).
A Tablet to his name and to others Officers has been affixed in Saint Joseph's Church of Waterloo : ►(File:18 June 1815 – Waterloo – St Joseph's Church, Tablet Right, 13.jpg).
Further information : ► https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Gordon_(British_staff_officer)

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