ABSTRACT
Allegedly present at Waterloo on 18 June, carried in her mother’s womb, and born in an Antwerp hospital several days later. In a tale recounted by Kelly (1818):
A private of the 27th Regiment, who was severely wounded, was carried off the field by his wife, then far advanced in pregnancy; she also was severely wounded by a shell, and both of them remained a considerable time in one of the hospitals at Antwerp in a hopeless state. The poor man had lost both his arms, the woman was extremely lame, and here gave birth to a daughter, to whom it is said the Duke of York has stood sponsor, and who has been baptized by the name of Frederica M’Mullen Waterloo.
