Lt. Col. Thomas Sowerby
(1788-1864)
13 April 1861

Volume 3, page 85, sitting number 3030.

Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Sowerby was a veteran of the Battle of Waterloo.

He died on 29 November 1864 at Putteridge Bury in Hertfordshire, leaving an estate valued at £80,000.

A short obituary appeared in the Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette (8 December 1864): 'The death is announced of Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Sowerby, one of the few surviving heroes of Waterloo. He entered the army as ensign in the Coldstream Guards on the 28th February, 1805. Embarked at Ramsgate in 1808, and went through nearly the whole of the Peninsular war; was at the passage of the Douro, the taking of Oporto, and the affair at Salamonde; the battles of Talavera, Salamanca, Vittoria, the Nive, and the Nivelle. He was with the covering army during the siege of Badajos, and at the siege of Burgos, and the sortie of Bayonne. He returned to England with the regiment in 1814, and went out to Brussels in 1815, and was at the Battle of Waterloo. He had received the war medal and five clasps for the Nive, the Nivelle, Vittoria, Salamanca, and Talavera, and the medal for Waterloo.'

[From an album that once belonged to the United Service Club.]