Waterloo hospital site to be dug up by team including UK veterans
by Daniel Boffey in Brussels from Science | The Guardian on (#4HTNN)
Archaeological dig will be first at building where thousands of Wellington's men were treated
A group of 25 British and Dutch military veterans are to join the first excavation of the main field hospital established by the Duke of Wellington during the Battle of Waterloo.
The former soldiers, sailors and RAF personnel will work with archaeologists, led by Prof Tony Pollard of Glasgow University, to explore the farm buildings of Mont-St-Jean, where thousands of wounded soldiers received primitive first aid as shot and shell rained down on them.
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